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What  Calif ornians  Want 

Read  the  opinions  of  your  fellow  citizens  and  neighbors 

regarding  the  preservation  of  the 

Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  system  for  the 

use  of  the  people  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  and 

the  facts  on  which  these  opinions 

are  based. 


I*iued  by  the 

General  Committee  Against  Dismemberment  of 
the  Southern  Pacific- Central  Pacific  System 

Wallace  M.  Alexander,  Chairman 
Merchants  Exchange  Building,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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\\  (  >  months  ago,  a  single  organization — the  San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Commerce — was  on 
record  urging  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to  continue  the  operation  of  the  Southern 
Pacific-Central  Pacific  System  as  a  unit,  in  the  face  of  threatened  dismemberment  as  a  result 
of  a  suit  brought  in  1^14  under  the  Sherman  Act. 

A  TREMENDOUS  PROTEST 

Today,  more  than  300  organizations,  representing  at  least  90  per  cent  of  the  agricultural  and  com- 
mercial shippers  of  California,  and  a  large  number  of  similar  organizations  in  Oregon,  Nevada  and  Ari- 
zona, have  banded  themselves  together  under  the  leadership  of  statewide  committees  or  otherwise,  to 
terve  for  the  Western  Slope  its  great  unified  trunk-line  system  reaching  from  Portland,  Ore.,  to  and 

w  the  Mexican  border,  without  interruption  in  management  or  service.  It  is  doubtful  if  any  such 
outpouring  of  public  sentiment  ever  has  been  witnessed  under  like  circumstances,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
yon,  too,  will  find  it  possible  to  lend  your  influence  in  making  clear  to  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission at  its  approaching  hearing  on  this  subject,  the  real  meaning  of  "the  public  interest"  in  this  State 
and  on  the  Pacific  Coast,  if  you  have  not  already  done  so. 

THE  ISSUE 

The  question  at  issue  i-  very  simple,  despite  many  attempts,  financed  from  outside,  to  make  it  ap- 
pear otherwise.     It  is  this  : 

Do  the  people  of  California,  <  >regon.  Nevada  and  Arizona  believe  they  will  be  bet- 
ter off  if  the  great  Pacific  Coast  Railroad  System  is  chopped  to  pieces  as  indicated  on 
the  map  in  this  booklet,  and  disposed  of  in  part,  by  forced  sale,  to  Eastern  buyers 
with  Eastern  interests — leaving  an  impaired  service  under  two  managements  where 
one  service  under  one  management  now  exists? 

That  is  all  any  one  of  us  has  to  decide  as  to  our  "public  interest,"  which,  under  the  law,  is  a  deter- 
mining factor  in  this  situation,  and  this  decision  affects  you  even  if  you  are  not  a  shipper  because  what 
<  \er  helps  or  hurts  the  grower-  and  producers,  the  canners  and  shippers,  the  wholesaler  and  retailers,  af- 
tectsyou  likewise.    So  these  questions  come  up  to  every  one  of  us:. 

Is  it  to  our  advantage  to  have  the  purchases  of  millions  of  dollars'  worth  of  sup- 
plies and  replacements  each  year  made  by  a  Pacific  Coast  company  or  by  an  outside 
interest  with  headquarters  elscwher 

Can  we  ship  more  easily  over  one  line  or  several?  Which  way  do  shipments 
travel  more  rapidly?  Which  way  is  less  expensive?  Which  way  are  adjustments 
more  easily  obtained  and  tariffs  more  easily  negotiated? 

Can  we  do  business  more  effectively  with  an  organization  whose  offices  are  in  San 
Francisco,  or  through  offices  2,000  or  3,000  miles  away? 

Finally,  in  the  name  of  common  sense,  do  we  stand  to  win  anything  by  tearing 
the  heart  out  of  the  Sotuhern  Pacific-Centra]  Pacific  System  or  any  other  going  con- 
cern and  turning  over  to  alien  and  probably  hostile  interests,  a  large  portion  of  its 
property  ? 


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THE  LAW  AND  THE  COURTS 

These  are  the  questions  which  we,  as  citizens,  are  invited  to  answer,  in  order  that  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  may  be  advised  as  to  what  constitutes  the  "public  interest"  out  here.  There 
are,  it  is  true,  great  points  of  law,  some  of  which  have  been  passed  upon  and  some  of  which  are  yet  to 
be  determined  by  legally  constituted  tribunals,  whose  decisions  are  and  should  be  cheerfully  accepted 
by  all  good  citizens.  Thus,  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States  in  a  decision  based  solely  upon 
the  provisions  of  the  Sherman  Act  of  1890,  has  found  that  this  Act  requires  the  Southern  Pacific  Com- 
pany to  relinquish  ownership  and  control  of  those  portions  of  its  property  technically  designated  as 
Central  Pacific  lines,  although  these  properties  have  been  operated  as  a  unit  for  more  than  half  a  cen- 
tury. Another  law,  the  Transportation  Act  of  1920,  empowers  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
to  continue  the  unified  operation  of  systems  which  would  otherwise  be  disrupted  under  the  Sherman 
Act,  when  such  operation  is  found  to  be  "in  the  public  interest,"  and  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
sion has  announced  that  it  will  hold  hearings  on  this  subject  in  October.  It  is  therefore,  of  great  im- 
portance that  the  public  sentiment  of  this  State  and  this  territory  be  fully  recorded  at  that  time  and 
you  are  urged  to  use  your  influence  to  that  end. 


WHAT  DO  YOU  THINK  OF  THIS? 

With  honest  differences  of  opinion,  no  fair  minded  man  can  quarrel.  It  is.  perhaps,  regrettable 
that,  in  advance  of  the  final  adjudication  of  this  case  certain  interests  now  seek  to  becloud  this  very 
simple  issue.  This  has  been  attempted,  with  little  success,  through  numerous  misstatements,  and 
through  the  creation  of  organizations  with  large  titles  such  as  the  "California  Producers  and  Ship- 
pers," of  which  the  executive  committee  (announced  only  after  a  challenge  from  the  General  Com- 
mittee Against  Dismemberment)  consists  of  two  real  estate  dealers,  an  insurance  agent,  and  two  farm- 
ers— with  no  published   membership  whatever. 

AS  TO  "COMPETITION" 

The  weight  of  such  organizations  and  the  methods  they  use,  speak  for  themselves.  Their  main 
argument — aside  from  many  promises,  to  which  no  responsible  authority  is  committed  in  any  way — 
is  that  "competition"  would  help  the  railroad  situation,  especially  in  California.  This  is  an  attractive 
argument  because  most  of  us  believe  in,  and  practice,  competition.  In  this  case,  however,  we  have  as 
our  servant,  one  unified  far-reaching,  Pacific  Coast  trunk  line  railroad  system,  operated  under  and 
regulated  by  State  and  Federal  authorities  which  have  removed  the  old  time  competition  of  rates,  and 
left  only  a  competition  of  service  now  provided  for  among  the  Southern  Pacific,  Western  Pacific, 
Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe,  and  Union  Pacific  Systems  now  all  operating  in  this  State.  The  prop- 
osition that  competition  of  service  among  these  lines  would  be  bettered  by  chopping  one  of  them  to 
bits  and  selling  the  pieces  is  the  equivalent  of  suggesting  that  a  man  with  an  automobile  will  have 
a  better  machine  if  some  one  takes  off  the  front  wheels,  ignition  system  and  steering  wheel  and  puts 
them  on  another  automobile.  You  do  not  thereby  create  a  new  automobile — you  simply  cripple  the 
one  that  you  now  have.  It  is  hardly  surprising  that  the  sober  judgment  of  shippers  and  business  men 
throughout  the  Far  West,  and  especially  in  California,  is  virtually  unanimous  in  rejecting  this  pro- 
oosal. 


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"Competition"  under  these  circumstances  can  mean  only  one  of  two  things :  First,  that  the  enter- 
ing road  shall  spend  hundreds  of  millions  of  dollars  paralleling  existing  lines  and  duplicating  existing 
equipment — an  expense  which  ultimately  must  be  borne  by  the  shippers  and  consumers  of  this  terri- 
tory— or:  Second,  portions  of  a  system  now  existing  and  functioning  shall  be  torn  away  from  it  and 
handed  over  to  some  one  else — a  condition  in  which  it  is  impossible  to  see  any  advantage  to  any  ship- 
per or  citizen,  and  which  would  inevitably  destroy  many  important  existing  routes  of  commerce. 

Furthermore,  the  dismemberment  of  this  system,  if  accomplished,  would  mean  a  correspond  ins; 
and  severe  impairment  of  the  ability  of  the  remaining  system  to  finance  the  rehabilitations  and  exten- 
sions of  service  now  being  carried  forward. 

HOW  THE  PEOPLE  STAND 

We  are  printing  herewith  the  names  of  the  organizations  on  record  to  date  (July  31)  as  favoring 
the  preservation  of  the  Pacific  Coast's  great  north  and  south  railroad  system — our  own  system  under 
our  own  regulation  for  more  than  8,000  miles  of  its  total  trackage  of  some  12,000  nrles — with  its  of- 
fices and  buying  power  centrally  located  in  our  midst.  We  are  also  printing  excerpts  from  a  few  of 
the  hundreds  of  letters  received  from  shippers  and  business  men  generally.  We  ask  you  to  read  this 
list  and  these  expressions  of  opinion  from  thoughtful  men.  and  then  to  ACT  both  by  writing  us  your 
personal  views  and  by  going  on  record  through  the  commercial  and  civic  organizations  of  which  you 
are  a  member. 

The  public  interest  of  all  of  us  will  be,  under  the  law  a  factor  of  might  in  the  approaching  hear- 
ings before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission.  We  want  your  individual  opinion  and  that  of  your 
organization.     Address: 

Wallace  M.  Alexander.  Chairman. 

General  Committee  Against  Dismemberment  of  the 

Central  Pacific-Southern  Pacific  System 

Merchant-.    Exchange    Bldg.,  San    Francisco,  Calif. 


ORGANIZED  OPINION  OPPOSES 
DISMEMBERMENT 

The  following  organizations  are  among  those  that  have  gone  on  record  opposing  the  dismember- 
ment of  the  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  System.  (See  Pages  7-21  for  statements  of  individual  ship- 
pers and  shipping  organizations.) 

CALIFORNIA  A,Usca.dcr?wCh  Kmber<  %f  Commcrcf 

Alameda  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

American    Train    Dispatcher.    Association,    Bakersfield  A!Tado.r  County  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Jackson. 

Auburn  Board  of  Supervisors  Alhambra  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Auburn  County  Officers.  Anaheim  Chamber  of  Commerce, 

ciated  Chambers  of  Commerce  of  the  Imperial  Val-  Arbuckle  Chamber  of  Commerce, 

ley.  Calexico.  \lviso  Merchants'  Association  (mass  meeting). 

Angels  Lodge  No.  948,  B.  of  R.  T..  Los  Angeles.  A»»ociated  Jobber*  of  Los  Angeles,  Los  Angeles. 

Alhambra  Businessmen's  Association.  Accountants'  Association,  San  Francisco. 

Anderson  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Associated  Tobacco  Growers,  Inc. 


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lterkeley  Manufacturers'  Association,  Berkeley. 

E'urbank  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Brawley  Commercial  Club. 

Berkeley  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Bakersfield  Civic  Commercial  Association. 

Benicia  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Bakersfield  Progressive  Business  Club. 

Biggs  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Bakersfield  Lumbermen's  Association. 

Booster  Club  of  Clovis. 

Bay  District  Conference  of  Commercial  Secretaries,  San 

Francisco. 
Board  of  Trade  of  San  Francisco. 
Brotherhood  of  Ry.  and  SS.  Clerks,  Freight  Handlers, 

Ex.    and    Sta.    Employees,    San    Francisco    and    Bay 

regions. 
Butte  County  Farm  Bureau,  Oroville. 

Chico  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Covina  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Coalinga  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Coachella  Valley   Associated   Chambers   of   Commerce, 
Thermal. 

Contra  Costa  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Martinez. 

Calexico  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Corning  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

California  Co-operative  Canneries. 

Canning  &  Peach  Growers'  Association,  Yuba  City. 

California  Almond  Growers'  Exchange,  San  Francisco. 

California  Develooment  Association,  San  Francisco. 

California  Fruit  Distributors,  includes: 
Pacific  Fruit  Exchange, 
Earl'Fruit  Co., 
Producers  Fruit  Co., 
Pioneer  Fruit  Co., 
Western  Fruit  Co.,  Sacramento. 

California  Warehousemen's  Association.  San  Francisco. 

California  Redwood  Association,  San  Francisco. 

California  Metal  &  Mineral  Producers'  Association,  San 
Francisco. 

Civic  League  of  Improvement  Clubs,  San  Francisco. 

California  Cotton  Mills  Co.,  Oakland. 

California  Manufacturers'  Association,  Oakland. 

California  Cattlemen's  Association,  San  Francisco. 

California  Cattlemen's  Association.  Los  Angeles. 

California  Walnut  Growers'  Association,  Los  Angeles. 

California    Almond    Growers'    Association,    San    Fran- 
cisco. 

California  Canning  Peach  Growers,  San  Francisco. 

California  Fruit  Exchange.  Sacramento. 

California  Vegetable  Union,  Los  Angeles. 

California  Pear  Growers'  Association.  San  Francisco. 

Canners'  League  of   California   (Joint  Traffic   Commit- 
tee), San  Francisco. 

California     Bean     Dealers'    Association     (Joint    Traffic 
Committee),  San  Francisco. 

California  Peach  &  Fig  Growers,  Fresno. 

California  Railroad  Commission,  San  Francisco. 

Corning  Board  of  Trustees. 

Calipatria  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

California  Club,  San  Diego. 

California  Industrial  Council.  Oakland. 

Calexico  Merchants'  Association. 

Colfax  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Calistoga  Town  Council. 

California  Businessmen's  Association,  San  Francisco. 

Colfax  Board  of  Trustees. 

Coalinga  Businessmen's  Association,  Coalinga. 

Colton  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

California  Nevada  Livestock  Shippers. 

Central  California  Citrus  Exchange,  Lindsay. 

Chico  Board  of  Trustees. 

Division  No.  110.  B.  of  L.  E.,  Sacramento. 
Division  No.  195,  O.  of  R.  C.  Sacramento. 
Division  No.  260,  B.  of  L.  F.  &  E.,  Sacramento. 
Danville  Grange  No.  85,  Danville. 


Davis  Businessmen's  Association. 

Delano  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Dinuba  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Division  No.  574,  O.  of  R.  C,  Sacramento. 

Dried    Fruit    Association    of    California    (Joint    Traffic 

Committee),  San  Francisco. 
Dunsmuir  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Dunsmuir  Board  of  Trustees. 
Davis  Board  of  Trustees. 

El  Monte  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

El  Centro  Realty  Board. 

Exeter  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

El  Centro  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

El  Dorado  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Placerville. 

East  Albany  Improvement  Association. 

Fresno  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Fresno. 
Fullerton  Board  of  Trade. 
Fairfield  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Fillmore  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Fresno  Traffic  Bureau,  Fresno. 

Grass  Valley  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Glendale  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Gridley  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Gridley  Board  of  Trustees,  Gridlev. 

Golden  Gate  Division  No.  364.  Oof  R.  C,  Oakland. 

Hayward  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Hanford  Board  of  Trade. 
Hermosa  Beach  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Holtville  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Hercules  Board  of  Trustees,  Hercules. 

Imperial  Valley  Bankers'  Association. 
Imperial  City  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Imperial  City. 
Imperial  Valley  Cantaloupe  Growers,  Brawley. 
Industrial  Traffic  Managers  of  San  Francisco  and  Bay 

regions,  San  Francisco. 
Indio  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Kern  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Bakersfield. 

Kern  County  Realty  Board,  Bakersfield. 

Kingsburg  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Kiwanis  Club  of  San  Francisco,  San  Francisco. 

Kiwanis  Club  of  Visalia. 

Kingsburg  Fruit  Growers'  Association.  Kingsburg. 

Keeler  and  vicinity  citizens,  Keeler. 

King  City  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Lodge  No.  503,  O.  of  R.  C,  Los  Angeles. 
Los  Angeles  Optimists'  Club,  Los  Angeles. 
La  Mesa  Merchants'  Association.  La  Mesa. 
Lodi  Businessmen's  Association,  Lodi. 
Lankershim  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Los  Angeles  Realty  Board. 

Lompoc  Valley  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Lompoc. 
Lassen  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Susanville 
Lindsay  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Livingston  Board  of  Trade. 
Long  Beach  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Lodi  Growers  &  Shippers'  League,  Lodi. 
Los   Banos    Commercial    Club   and    Chamber   of   Com- 
merce. ' 
Los  Angeles  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Lincoln  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
La  Verne  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Livermore  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Marysville  Board  of  Trustees,  Marysville. 

Mt.  View  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Martinez  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Merced  Chamber  of  Commerce 

Monterey  City  Council,  Monterey. 

Modesto  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Madera  County  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Madera. 


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Manteca  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Merchants  &  Livestock  Association,  Litchfield. 

Mutual  Businessmen's  Club,  San  Francisco. 

Merchants  and  Manufacturers'  Association,  Sacramento. 

Merchants  &  Manufacturers'  Association,  Los  Angeles. 

McFarland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Monterey  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Northern    California    Counties    Association,    including: 
Siskiyou,      Modoc,      Lassen,     Shasta      and     Trinity, 
_  Redding. 

Niland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Newman  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Nevada  City  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
North  Central  Improvement  Association,  San  Francisco. 
Nevada  City  Board  of  Trustees. 

Oxnard  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Oakland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Oroville  United  Chambers  of  Commerce,  Oroville. 

Orland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

One  Hundred  Per  Cent  Club,  San  Francisco. 

Orland  Board  of  Trustees. 

Oakdale  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Oroville  Board  of  Supervisors. 

Ontario  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Oceanside  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Palo  Alto  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Pittsburg  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Porterville  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Pomona  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Pasadena  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Civic  Association. 

Pajaro  Valley  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Watsonville. 

Paso  Robles  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Patterson  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Petaluma  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Progressive  Business  Club,  San  Francisco. 

Purchasing    Agents'   Association   of   Northern    Califor- 
nia, San  Francisco. 

Pacific  Traffic  Association,  San  Francisco. 

Pleasanton  Businessmen's  Club. 

Pleasanton  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Placer  County  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Roseville. 

Placer  County  Board  of  Supervisors,  Roseville. 

Placer  County  Joint  Resolution  of  Ten  County  Officers 
Roseville. 

Placerville  Board  of  Trustees,  Placerville. 

Rice  Association  of  California  (Joint  Traffic  Commit- 
tee), San  Francisco. 
Russian  River  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Guerneville. 
Richmond.  Council  of  the  City  of. 
Redding  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Red  Bluff  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Redlands  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Roseville  Businessmen's  Association.  Roseville. 
Roseville  Women's  Improvement  Club. 
Ripon  Merchants'  Association. 
Redondo  Beach  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Retail  Merchants  Association.  Sacramento. 
Roseville  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Sutter  County  Board  of  Supervisors,  Yuba  City. 
Snowshed  Lodge.  B.  of  R.  T..  Sacramento. 
San  Jose  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
San  Jose  Realty  Board. 

•i  Clara  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
<*n  Dimas  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Santa  Ana  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Stanislaus  Board  of  Trade.  Modesto. 
Santa  Ana  Realty  Board 

(h  San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Stockton  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

imento    Valley    Development    Association     Sacra- 
mento 


Sacramento  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Sacramento  County  Board  of  Trustees,  Sacramento. 

San  Fernando  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

San  Diego  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

San  Bernardino  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

San  Anselmo  Good  Government  League,  San  Anselmo. 

Sebastopol  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Santa  Rosa  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Santa  Maria  Valley  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Santa 
Maria. 

San  Pedro  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Santa  Paula  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Susanville  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Suisun  Board  of  Trustees. 

South  of  Civic  Center. 

San  Joaquin  County  Table  Grape  Growers'  Associa- 
tion, Lodi. 

San  Francisco  Real  Estate  Board. 

Santa  Fe  Improvement  Association,  Oakland. 

Sutter  County  Farm  Bureau,  Yuba  City. 

Santa  Barbara  Commercial  Club. 

San  Pedro  Maritime  Exchange  and  Shipping  Club,  San 
Pedro. 

Sacramento  Clearing  House  Assn.,  Sacramento. 

Selma  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

San  Francisco  Joint  Co-operative  Board,  B.  of  L.  E.. 
B.  of  L.  F.  &  E..  O.  of  R.  C,  B.  of  R.  T.  and  O.  of 
R.  T.,  San  Francisco. 

Strathmore  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Santa  Barbara  Progressive  Business  Club,  Santa  Bar- 
bara. 

Stockton  Rotary  Club. 

Sisson  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Stable  Owners'  Protective  Association. 

Santa  Cruz  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

San  Joaquin  Light  &  Power  Corporation,  Fresno. 

Three  Cities  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Turlock  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Tulare  Board  of  Trade. 

Tracy  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Train  Dispatchers'  Association,  Los  Angeles. 

Turlock  Fruit  &  Melon  Growers  &  Shippers,  Turlock. 

Turlock  Melon  Growers'  Association,  Turlock. 

United  Chambers  of  Commerce  of  the  Sacramento  Val- 
ley (21  counties),  Sacramento. 

Vallejo  City  Council,  Vallejo. 

Ventura  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Ventura. 

Van  Nuys  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Valley  Packing  Association,  Coachella  (subsidiary  As- 
sociation Chambers  of  Commerce  of  the  Coachella 
Valley).    ' 

Valley  l;ruit  Growers'  Association.  Fresno. 

Vallejo  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Venice  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Whittier  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Williams  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Woodland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Wilmington  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Willows  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Wendel  Commercial  Club,  Wendel. 

Wholesale  Boot  &  Shoe  Association  of  California,  San 

Francisco. 
Williams  Board  of  Trustees. 
Whittier  District  Fruit  Exchange.  Whittier. 
Wilmington  "Peptomist"  Club. 
Winters  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Westhaven  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Wendel  Business  Men  and  Ranchers. 

Yolo  County  Board  of  Trade.  Woodland. 
Yuba  City  Board  of  Trustees,  Yuba  City. 
Yuba  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Marysville. 
Yuba  County  Farm  Bureau,  Marysville. 
Yuba  City,  Town  of. 


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OREGON 


Albany  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Ashland  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

American  Association  of  Engineers.  Portland. 

American  Train  Dispatchers'  Association. 

Amity  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Brownsville  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Big  Lakes  Box  Co.,  Klamath  Falls. 
Blumauer-Frank  Drug  Co.,  Portland. 
Bayer,  J.  C.  (manufacturer),  Portland. 
Booth-Kelly  Lumber  Co.,  Eugene. 
Brighton  Mills  Co.,  Brighton. 

Carlton  Board  of  Trade. 
Cresswell  Merchants  and  Citizens. 
Central  Point  Merchants. 
Corvallis  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Cottage  Grove  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Coquille  Commercial  Club,  Coquille. 
Cartwright,  J.  R.,  Harrisburg. 
Coos  Veneer  &  Box  Co.,  Marshfield. 
California-Oregon  Power  Co.,  Medford. 
Citizens  Bank,  Ashland. 

Dallas  Commercial  Club. 
Drain  Merchants  and  Citizens. 
Dillard  Citizens. 

Eugene  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Forest  Grove  Commercial  Club. 
Fischer  Flouring  Mills,  Inc.,  Corvallis. 
First  National  Bank  of  North  Bend. 
First  National  Bank  of  Newland. 

Grants  Pass  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Gardiner  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Gold  Hill  Business  Men. 
Glendale  Merchants. 

Hillsboro  Club,  Hillsboro. 
Hammond  Lumber  Co.,  Portland. 
Hudson  &  Gram  Co.,  Portland. 
Hawlev  Pulp  &  Paper  Co.,  Oregon  City- 
Hub,  The,  Marshfield. 

Independence  Retail  Merchants'  Association. 

Jefferson  Business  Men.  Jasper. 
Junction  City  Commercial  Club. 

Lamm  Lumber  Co..  Modoc  Point. 
Lakeside  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Lebanon  Commercial  Club. 

Myrtle  Point  Commercial  Club. 

Marcola  Residents. 

Mapleton  Merchants. 

Myrtle  Creek  Business  Men. 

Merlin  Business  Men. . 

Mount  Angel  Community  Club. 

McMinnville  Commercial  Club. 

Mingus,  Dr.  Everett,  Marshfield. 

Medford  Grocery  Co.,   Medford. 

Marshfield  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Coos  Bay. 

Medford  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Medford. 

McMorran  &  Washburne,  Eugene. 

Modoc  Lumber  Co,,  Aspgrove. 

North  Bend  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Newberg  Commercial  Club. 

Noti  Residents. 

Xewport  .Commercial  Club. 

Oakridge  Residents. 
Oakland  Merchants  and  Citizens. 
Oregon  City  Commercial  Club. 
Oregon  Pulp  &  Paper  Co.,  Salem. 


Pacific  Export  Lumber  Co.,  Portland. 
Pacific  Coast  Biscuit  Company,  Portland. 
Portland  Cordage  Co.,  Portland. 
Powers  Commercial  Club,  Powers. 
Price  Bros.  Department  Store.  Oregon  City 
Pelican  Bay  Lumber  Co.,  Klamath  Falls. 
Roseburg  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Reedsport  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Rogue  River  Merchants. 

Salem  Commercial  Club. 

Springfield  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Silverton  Community  Club. 

Sutherlin  Merchants  and  Citizens. 

Siltcoos  Residents. 

Sprague  River  Cattle  &  Horse'  Association. 

Silverton  Lumber  Co. 

Schwab  Commission  Co.,  Fred,  Mt.  Angel. 

Suislaw  Commercial  Club,  Florence. 

Silver  Falls  Timber  Co. 

Tillamook  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Talent  Merchants. 

Veneta  Merchants  and  Citizens. 

Van  Cleve,  R.  S.,  Toledo. 

Wilbur  Residents. 

Wolf  Creek  Residents. 

Willamette  Valley  Lumbermen's  Association. 

Willamette  Valley  Prune  Association,  Salem. 

Willamette  Grocery  Co.,  Salem. 

Wetherbee- Walker   Furniture  Co..   Eugene. 

Whitney  Co.,  The,  Idaville. 

Wilhemina  Commercial  Club. 

Wheeler  Lumber  Co. 

Yoncalla  Merchants  and  Citizens. 


NEVADA 


Austin  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Beowawe  Business  Men. 

Bissinger  &  Co.,  Reno. 

Battle  Mountain  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Boston  &  Ely,  Ely. 

Carlin    Ranchers.    Livestock    Men,    Miners,    Merchants, 
etc. 

Department  of  Highways.  Carson  City. 
Deeth  Livestock  Men  and  Citizens. 
Dayton  Business  Men  and  Citizens. 

Eureka  Business  Men  and  Citizens. 

Fernley  Citizens. 

Fallon  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Goldfield  Citizens. 

Golconda  Citizens. 

Hazen  Ranchers  and  Business  Men. 

Hawthorne  and  Vicinity  Citizens. 

Humboldt  County  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Imlay  Citizens. 

Luning  and  Vicinity  Citizens. 

Mina  Citizens. 

Moffat  Co.,  H.,  Inc. 

Oreana  and  Rochester  Citizens  and  Merchants. 

Pershing  County  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Palisade  Business  Men  and  Ranchers. 

Public  Service  Commission  of  Nevada. 

Suquadi,  John,  Stockman,  Reno. 

Tonopah  Business  Men  and  Citizens. 

Union  Sheep  Co.,  H.  Levy  Co.,  Quinto  Ranch  Co. 

Wadsworth  Citizens. 

Wells  Ranchers  and  Business  Men. 

Wabuska  and  Vicinity  Citizens. 

Winnemucca  Citizens. 

Wilkes,  E..  Tonopah. 

Verington   Commercial  Club. 


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ARIZONA 


Arizona  Corporation  Commission. 
Arizona  Cattle  Association,  San  Carlos. 
Arizona  Industrial  Congress,  N'ogales. 
Arizona  Merchants'  Association. 
Arizona  Fuel  &  Supply  Co. 

Burge-Doyle  Livestock  Co.,  Litchton. 
Brotherhood  of  Railway  Clerks,  Tucson. 

Casa  Grande  Farmers  Association. 

Cochise  Graham  Cattle  Growers'  Association,  Willcox. 

Calumet  &  Arizona  Mining  Co.,  Warren. 

Clark,  Vernon  L„  Phoenix. 

Corbett  Hardware  Co.,  \V.  J.,  Tucson. 

Central  Copper  Co.  of  Arizona,  Inc.,  Dos  Cabezas. 

Douglas  Chamber  of  Commerce  &  Mines. 

Gouley  Burgham  Co.,  Tucson. 
Gila  Bend  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Iron  Cap  Copper  Co.,  Copper  Hill. 

Johnson  &  Cook.  Willcox. 

Kiwanis  Club,  Tucson. 

Kelvin  Lumber  &  Supply  Co.,  Winkelman. 

Korrick  &  Bro..  Charles,  Phoenix. 

McCall  Cotton  &  Oil  Co..  Phoenix. 
Mexico-Arizona  Trading  Co.,  Xogales. 
Miami  Copper  Co. 
-•lesa  pistrict  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

N'ogales  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Norton-Morgan  Commercial  Co. 
National  Bank.  Tucson. 


O'Mallcy  Lumber  Co.,  Tucson. 

Phoenix  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

F.  Ronstadt  Co.,  Tucson. 
Rotary  Club,  Tucson. 

San  Pedro  Valley  Commercial  Club,  Benson. 
Somerton  Chamoer  of  Commerce. 
Salt  River  Valley  Realtors  Association. 
Stanley,  Mr.  S.  F.,  Yuma. 

Tucson  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
Tucson   Federation  of  Railway  Employees. 
Tin- son  Real  Estate  Board. 

Union  Oil  Co.  of  Arizona,  Phoenix. 

Willcox  Chamber  of  Commerce 
Willard  Hotel,  Tucson. 
Wheeler   Perry  Co.,  Tucson. 
Wheatlcy-Brooks  Co.,  Tucson. 

Yuma  County  Chamber  of  Commerce. 


NEW  MEXICO 


Carmen's  Organization,  Lordsburg. 

Deming  Chamber  of  Commerce. 

Hidalgo   County   Chamber   of   Commerce,    Inc..   Lords- 
burg. 

Lordsburg   Merchant* 

Mahoney,  J.  A.,  Deming. 

State  Corporation  Commission. 


DANGERS  FACED  BY  SHIPPERS 

Why  practical  shippers  and  producers  throughout  this  territory  oppose  dismemberment. 


CALIFORNIA 


AGRICULTURE 

G.  A.  Proctor,  California  Hops,  Santa  Rosa.  Cal.— 
"The  more  \vc  can  minimize  the  number  of  railroads 
and  division  points  in  handling  a  carload  lot,  the 
greater  the  improvement  of  service,  and  we  believe  that 
a  dissolution  of  the  present  one-unit  system  between 
this  coast  and  Ogden  would  materially  decrease  the 
present  high  efficiency  of  that  route." 

B.  F.  Porter  Estate,  Sesnon  Oil  Co..  San  Francisco, 
CaL— "As  a  matter  of  information  I  may  say  that  my 
personal  interests  include  land  in  Los  Angeles,  Kern. 
Monterey,  Contra  Costa  and  Santa  Cruz  Counties — that 
•  ver  a  large  portion  of  the  State — and  everywhere 
-uch  dissolution  of  this  unit  system,  unless  prevented 
l>y  the  action  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission, 
nould  be  detrimental  in  the  extreme." — William  T.  Ses- 
non. 

Miller  4  Lux..  Inc..  San  Francisco.  Cal. — "The  dis- 
ruption  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific 
•ems  would  mean  that  practically  every  shipment  of 
any  consequence  made  by  Miller  &  Lux  would  travel 
over  the  lines  of  the  two  companies.  This  would  im- 
pose additional  duties  upon  the  traffic  department  of 
this  company.  Also  the  efficiency  of  the  system  oper- 
ated as  a  unit  would  be  destroyed  in  such  a  way  as  to 
seriously  affect  this  company." — J.  Leroy  Nickel,  Pres- 
ident 


Charles  S.  Hardy.  Shipper  of  Livestock,  San  Diego. 
Cal. — "I  am  very  much  interested  in  this,  as  it  truly 
would  be  a  calamity  for  this  coast  if  this  segregation  is 
made." 

Moulton  Irrigated  Lands  Co.,  Ft.  Klamath  Meadows 
Co.,  Granger*  Union,  Pacheco  Cattle  Co.,  Hollister, 
Cal. — "As  president  of  companies  operating  in  San  Ben- 
ito and  Colusa  Counties,  California,  and  in  Klamath 
County,  Oregon,  I  feel  that  the  interests  of  all  these 
companies  would  be  most  seriously  affected  by  the  dis- 
ruption of  these  two  railroad  systems." — C.  Nf.  Haw- 
kins, President. 

The  Grange  Co.,  Modesto,  Cal.— "The  warehouses  we 
operate  will  be  located  on  two  systems  if  the  division 
is  made.  We  feel  that  it  would  be  an  almost  irreparable 
damage  to  us  if  the  change  were  made." — Henry  G. 
Turner,  President. 

The  Red  Bluff  National  Bank.  Red  Bluff.  Cal.— "As  a 
stockman  and  farmer  1  wish  to  add  my  protest  against 
the  dismemberment  of  the  Central  and  Southern  Pa- 
cific Railway  Lines,  and  hope  that  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission  will  find  some  legal  and  proper 
method  to  overcome  the  effect  of  the  recent  Supreme 
Court  decision  in  this  matter." — T.  H.  Ramsay,  Pres- 
ident. 

BANKS 

Bank  of  California,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "During  all 
of  the  years  that  the  Central  Pacific  has  been  leased  to 
the  Southern    Pacific,   the  two   roads   have  been  devel- 


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oped  into  one  system,  the  credit  of  each  being  used  for 
the  benefit  of  the  other,  and  an  attempt  to  separate 
them  today  would  result  in  great  confusion,  expense 
and  hardship  to  industries  and  communities  which  have 
based  their  plans  on  the  fact  that  the  conveniences 
given  by  this   system   existed. 

"The  future  of  these  industries  and  individuals  de- 
mands that  this  system  be  kept  together  and  be  al- 
lowed to  grow  together,  and  fortunately  it  is  in  the 
power  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to  bring 
this  about;  in  fact,  it  has  kept  these  roads  together  in 
the  tentative  grouping  of  the  old  systems  of  the  coun- 
try."— Frank  B.  Anderson,  President. 

Wells  Fargo  Nevada  National  Bank,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. — "They  have  been  for  so  long  operated  together 
that  the  welfare  of  our  shippers  and  business  men  is 
bound  up  in  the  continuance  of  such  unified  operation. 
The  reasons  for  this  are  self  evident,  but  among  them 
may  be  emphasized  the  Pacific  Coast  management  of 
the  lines  as  contrasted  with  a  distant  management  that 
would  have  only  a  secondary  interest  in  the  develop- 
ment of  the  Coast." — F.  L.  Lipman,  President. 

BREWERS 

Buffalo  Brewing  Co.,  Sacramento,  Cal. — "While  I  am 
not  in  position  to  report  to  you  the  expression  of  our 
stockholders,  I  will  state  for  myself  that  it  would  be 
a  calamity  to  this  section  of  the  State  should  the  Cen- 
tral and  Southern  Pacific  Companies  be  unmerged  and 
the  Central  Pacific  put  into  the  Union  Pacific  System." 
— F.  C.  Weil,  Manager. 

CATTLE  RAISER 

Fred  H.  Bixby,  Cattle  Raiser  and  Shipper,  Long 
Beach,  Cal.  (Mr.  Bixy  is  president  of  the  National  Cat- 
tlement's  Association). — "Relative  to  what  is  called  the 
unmerger  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific, 
I  beg  leave  to  say  to  you  that  I  am  very  much  opposed 
to  this  procedure. 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  board  of  directors  of  the  Cali- 
fornia Cattlemen's  Association,  held  in  San  Francisco, 
Friday,  Jul}'  21,  at  which  I  happened  to  be  present,  it 
was  unanimously  agreed  that  the  California  Cattlemen's 
Association  was  against  the  idea  of  separating  the 
Southern  Pacific  and  the  Central  Pacific. 

"Every  one  I  have  spoken  to  about  this  matter  has 
been  of  the  opinion  that  the  unmerger  was  not  only 
unnecessary,  but  would  work  a  great  hardship  on  the 
producers  of  the  State  of  California." 

DAIRY  PRODUCTS 
California  Central  Creameries,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 

"After  carefully  considering  the  possible  effects  of  dis- 
memberment of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  the  Central 
Pacific  Railroads,  this  company,  being  a  California 
corporation  operating  in  all  parts  of  the  State,  from  the 
Imperial  Valley  to  Del  Norte  County,  feels  that  such 
dismemberment  would  be  of  no  benefit  to  us  or  to  other 
shippers  in  California  in  the  matter  of  bringing  any 
more  competition,  and  that  being  of  no  benefit  such 
dismemberment  would  be  undesirable,  as  it  is  felt  that 
it  opens  the  door  to  possible  disruptment  of  service  and 
possible  increase  in  freight  rates." — Walter  Dorwaldt, 
Traffic  Dept. 

DEVELOPMENT  COMPANIES 

Natomas  Company  of  California,  Sacramento,  Cal. — 
"Our  company  owns  a  large  rock  crushing  plant  at  Fair 
Oaks  on  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad,  most  of  the 
shipments  being  made  to  points  that  would  be  on  the 
Central  Pacific  if  the  roads  were  separated.  The  pres- 
ent minimum  freight  rate  is  60  cents  per  ton,  but  if  the 
roads  were  operated  separately,  the  minimum  freight 
charge  for  a  two-line  haul  would  be  80  cents  per  ton, 
or  an  increase  of  20  cents  per  ton.  The  shipments  from 
our  plant  amount  to  about  500,000  tons  per  year,  so 
the    increased    freight    charges    from    this    plant    alone 


would  aggregate  $100,000  per  annum,  which  of  course 
would  have  to  be  borne  by  the  consumer,  as  the  ma- 
terial is  sold  f.o.b.  plant." — Emery  Oliver,  General  Man- 
ager. 

DRIED  FRUITS  AND  NUTS 

Guggenhime  &  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "We  be- 
lieve that  one  glance  at  a  map  of  the  said  railway  sys- 
tem would  convince  any  man  with  any  fair-mindedness 
that  to  dismember  this  system  would  simply  mean  new 
difficulties  and  complications  in  the  handling  of  Cali- 
fornia freights  and  there  would  be  left  of  the  present 
system  a  number  of  small  railways  starting  nowhere 
and  arriving  nowhere." — Berthold  Guggenhime,  Pres- 
ident. 

Rosenberg  Bros.  &  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "We  are 
firmly  convinced  that  the  separation  of  the  present  uni- 
fied system  would  be  disastrous  to  the  public  interest. 
It  behooves  all  public  bodies,  as  well  as  individual 
shippers,  to  get  together  and  endeavor  to  work  out 
some  plan  which  will  prevent  the  separation  now  im- 
pending."— H.  R.  Higgins,  Traffic  Manager. 

California  Almond  Growers'  Exchange,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. — "The  California  Almond  Growers  Exchange, 
shippers  of  5,000  to  7,000  tons  yearly  and  representing 
a  membership  of  approximately  3,000  growers,  view 
with  deep  concern  the  threatened  dismemberment  of 
the  Central  Pacific-Southern  Pacific  System  and  sug- 
gest that  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  which  we  are 
members,  appear  before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission, earnestly  urging  the  continued  operation  of 
this  great  system  as  a  unit. 

"Our  organization  covers  twenty-two  counties  in  the 
States  and  represents  75  per  cent  of  the  almond  ton- 
nage shipped.  It  is  one  of  the  vital  elements  of  our 
success  that  our  shipments  shall  go  forward  promptly 
and  at  the  least  possible  cost  and  that  we  shall  be  able 
to  deal  throughout  the  State  with  a  responsible  railroad 
organization.  The  dismemberment  of  the  Central  Pa- 
cific-Southern Pacific  System  would,  therefore,  be  ca- 
lamitous to  us,  not  only  with  reference  to  the  present 
acreage  but  to  thousands  of  acres  which  will  come 
into  bearing  within  the  next  three  years." — T.  C.  Tuck- 
er, Manager. 

California  Walnut  Growers'  Association,  Los  Angeles, 
Cal. — "On  cars  shipped  from  our  various  packing  houses 
located  along  the  coast  lines  of  the  Southern  Pacific. 
shipments  would  be  delayed  waiting  for  cars  to  be 
furnished  by  the  Central  Pacific  (as  they  would  get  the 
long  haul  the  Southern  Pacinc  naturally  would  expect 
the  Central  Pacific  to  furnish  the  cars').  At  present  the 
Southern  Pacific  furnish  them  and  there  is  no  delay. 
To  avoid  this  delay  we  would  have  to  shin  via  the 
Southern  routes,  which  would  be  considerably  longer 
to  Northeastern  points,  and  which  would  also  mean 
delay." — Jas.  P.  Curry,  Traffic  Manager. 

Dried  Fru't  Association  of  California,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. — -"We  will  be  very  glad  to  co-operate  with  you  to 
the  fullest  extent  to  prevent  the  proposed  separation 
of  the  Central  and  Southern  Pacific." — H.  R.  Higgins. 
Chairman,  Traffic  Committee. 

Los    Gatos    Cured    Fru't    Co.,    Los    Gatos.    Cal. — "It 

would  seem  that  anything  that  could  be  done  to  ob- 
viate this  inconvenience  and  consequential  loss  of  time 
would  be  of  the  greatest  benefit  to  the  entire  State, 
and  I  therefore  most  heartily  endorse  the  action  vour 
body  has  taken  in  this  matter,  deeming  it  to  be  entirely 
unselfish  and  prompted  bv  a  desire  to  be  of  service  to 
all." — Noah  G.  Rogers,  President. 

FISH  PACKERS 

Field  &  Gross,  Inc.,  Monterey,  Cal. — "To  disrupt  the 
railroads  would  put  an  additional  burden  upon  every 
individual  in  the  State  of  California." — E.  B.  Gross. 
President  and  General  Manager. 


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F.  E.  Booth  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "There  is  but 
one  road,  to  all  Californians.  There  should  be  no  divi- 
sion of  these  two  interests,  insofar  as  the  public  is 
concerned.  We  are  entitled  to  deal  with  one  company — 
the  Southern  Pacific — when  arranging  for  our  East  and 
West  bound  rail  freight." — F.  E.  Booth,  President. 

AUTOMOBILES  AND  ACCESSORIES 

George  Haberfelde,  Inc.,  Bakersfield,  Cal.— "We  do 
not  wish  to  be  put  to  the  inconvenience  of  the  addi- 
tional local  freight  rates  and  additional  expense  which 
would  be  necessary  to  erect  the  additional  terminals, 
and  from  which  expenditure  we  would  gain  nothing." — 
W.  J.  Haberfelde,  Manager. 

Campe-Rose  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "We  at  pres- 
ent receive  shipments  over  this  route  representing 
twenty  to  twenty-five  thousand  dollars  in  freight 
charges  per  month,  and  the  service  as  rendered,  by 
which  they  deliver  through  freight  from  Detroit  to 
San  Francisco  in  eleven  to  thirteen  days,  is  one  which 
is  truly  very  valuable  to  the  automobile  business:  and 
we  would  very  much  regret  to  see  any  move  which 
would  tend  to  disrupt  the  present  efficient  organiza- 
tion."— Lou  H.  Rose,  President. 

Ford  Motor  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.— "It  seems  to  us 
that  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  could  find  a 
lawful  means  of  operating  the  Central  Pacific  and 
Southern  Pacific  as  a  unit.  The  writer  thoroughly 
agrees  with  you  that  shipping  interests  will  suffer  if 
these  roads  are  to  be  operated  separately.  It  will  give 
us  pleasure  to  sign  your  petition  when  same  is  readv." — 
L  Grans,  Manager  Los  Angeles  Branch. 

Earle   C.   Anthony,    Inc..   San   Francisco.   Cal.— "We 

■luite   heavy   shipjicr-   ol  freight  from   the    East,  as 

our   shipments   run   about   ninety  carloads   per  month. 

find   the  standard   rates  are  taken  care  of  by  the 

\ariou«   railroad   commissions  and   there   is   no  advan- 

one  way  or  the  other  over  which  road  they  come. 

but  we  do  find  in  tracing  our  shipments  and  expediting 

their  passage  that  whenever  our  cars  are  delivered  to 

the  Southern   Pacific,  Union  Pacific  North   Western  at 

Chicago  or  the  Salt   I.ake  or  the  Santa   Fe.  that  their 

time  is  much  reduced.    Once  let  them  (they  come  from 

Detroit.    New   York  and    Lansing)   get  on   the  various 

small   unit   railroads   east  of   Chicago   the   situation    is 

hopeless.     We  can  neither  get  reports  or  information. 

and  it  runs  eight  to  ten  days  longer  in  time. 

"The  principal  thing  in  the  freight  matter  that  we 
are  most  fearful  of  in  the  dismemberment  of  the  South- 
ern Pacific  System  is  that  it  requires  us  to  trace  our 
ears  with  the  small  units.  This  is,  of  course,  going  to 
increase  their  overhead  and  necessarily  they  must  cut 
down   the  personnel  of  their  freight  department 

-  far  as  the  passenger  service  is  concerned,  I  think 
that  this  speaks  for  itself  as  they  will  find  out  when 
it  is  broken  up. 

"Further,  we  have  a  most  efficient  railroad  commis- 
in  the  State  of  California,  organized,  if  I  am  not 
mistaken,  for  the  purpose  of  regulating  all  public  util- 
ities     It  is  perfectly  patent  that  a  well  regulated  single 
public    utility    can    render    better    service    than    half    a 
n  others. 

"While,  personally.  I  hold  no  brief  for  the  Southern 
Pacific,  and  while  personally.  I  feel  the  service  on  the 
5*5?  F.e  Ral'road  '*.  far  superior,  neverthless,  as  a 
I  aliiornian  I  believe  that  the  dismemberment  proposed 
.1  going  to  work  a  great  hardship  on  the  people  of 
i  alifornia.  —Earle  C.  Anthony,  President. 

Chester  N.  Weaver  Co.,  Automobiles.  San  Francisco. 
Cal.—  From  reports  that  I  can  get  I  feel  that  an  un- 
scrambling or  a  disruption  of  this  organization  would 
enefit  no  one  and  would  injure  the  community  that 
these  two  roads  serve,  and  the  people  to  be  considered 
are  the  people  that  are  affected.  The  people  that 
are  affected  in  turn  are  just  such  people  as  ourselves." 

Chester   N    Weaver. 


W.  J.  Benson  Co.,  Automobiles,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"We  have  enjoyed  wonderful  service  over  these  lines 
and  very  satisfactory  rates,  and  we  surely  would  like  to 
see  the  continuation  of  this  very  satisfactory  service 
and  rates  to  ourselves  as  well  as  to  all  other  shippers 
and  the  traveling  public.  We  are  afraid  that  the  sep- 
aration of  these  two  roads  will  mean  the  discontin- 
uance of  this  exceptionally  good  service  which  we  have 
received  over  these  lines  and  that  the  separation  of 
these  roads  will  be  no  material  gain  to  any  one,  but  a 
severe  loss." — W.  J.  Benson. 

Paul  Derkum  Service,  Inc.,  Bakersfield,  Cal. — "I  am 
in  the  tire  business  in  Bakersfield,  Cal.,  and  I  receive 
annually  from  the  East  four  cars  of  tires.  Believing 
that  the  proposed  dismemberment  would  be  fatal  to 
my  business,  since  shipments  would  have  to  be  routed 
over  two  railroads,  thus  increasing  freight  costs  and 
causing  inconvenient  delays,  I  am  taking  this  means  of 
protesting  the  dismemberment  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
System  into  the  Central  Pacific  and  Southern  Pacific 
Companies." — Paul  Derkum. 

FRUIT  AND  VEGETABLE  PACKERS 

The  following  is  quotation  from  extensive  survey 
made  by  H.  E.  Van  Horn,  Traffic  Director  of  the  Cal- 
ifornia Packing  Corporation,  showing  typical  instances 
of  the  effects  on  freight  sen-ice  for  green  fruit  and  veg- 
etables, which  would  apply  also  to  the  movement  of 
empty  boxes  and  supplies  for  canneries.  A  copy  in 
full  of  this  letter  will  be  sent  to  any  one  desiring  further 
information  on  this  subject. 

"We  have  a  movement  of  fruit  from  Red  Bluff, 
a  station  immediately  above  Tehama,  to  San  Fran- 
cisco. Oakland.  Emeryville,  Berkeley,  Lorenzo,  San 
Leandro  and  San  Jose,  which  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific has  always  moved  on  the  fast  Portland  freight 
train  through  Benicia  to  San  Francisco,  Emery- 
ville. Oakland  and  Berkeley  and  through  Oakland 
when  destined  Lorenzo.  San  Leandro  and  San  Jose. 
Mileage  via  this  route  is  to  San  Francisco,  198; 
to  Oakland.  193:  to  Berkeley.  193:  to  Emeryville, 
193;  to  Lorenzo,  206;  San  Leandro,  203;  to  San  Jose, 
234  miles.  The  situation  under  the  proposed  ar- 
rangement will  be  that  the  shipments  will  originate 
on  the  Central  Pacific  and  we  assume  thai  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  will  use  every  means  to  obtain  the  long 
haul  through  Stockton  and  Tracy.  Mileage  via 
Tracy  is  to  San  Francisco.  268:  to  Oakland.  263:  to 
Berkeley.  263:  to  Emeryville.  263:  to  Lorenzo.  250: 
to  San  Leandro.  253:  and  to  San  Jose,  256  miles,  or 
70  miles  more  to  San  Francisco,  Oakland.  Berkeley 
and  Emeryville.  47  miles  more  to  Lorenzo  and  Sail 
Leandro,  and  22  miles  more  to  San  Jose  than  the 
Benicia  route.  There  is  no  doubt  that  shipments 
would  h*  delayed  as  the  result  of  this  longer  route. 
On  the  other  hand,  shipments  could  move  to  Sac- 
ramento via  the  Central  Pacific,  thence  Southern 
Pacific  to  Oakland.  San  Francisco,  Emeryville  »«"* 
Berkeley,  but  when  destined  San  Leandro  and  Lo- 
renzo. C.  P.  to  Sacramento.  S.  P.  to  Oakland,  and 
C.  P.  to  destination:  and  when  distined  to  San  Jose, 
C.  P.  to  Sacramento,  S.  P.  to  Oakland.  C.  P.  to 
Elmhurst.  and  S.  P.  to  destination.  This  would 
make  a  two-line  haul  to  San  Francisco.  Oakland. 
Berkeley  and  Emeryville;  a  three-line  haul  to  San 
Leandro  and  Lorenzo,  and  a  four-line  haul  to  San 
Jose.  The  C.  P.  could  be  used  direct  from  Oak- 
land to  San  Jose  through  Niles.  but  the  S.  P.  now 
moves  green  fruit  through  Newark  as  much  as 
possible." 

FRUIT  AND  VEGETABLE  PACKERS 

California  Canneries  Company,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"We  can  only  see  great  harm  in  the  immediate  future 
if  the  dissolution  of  the  Southern  Pacific  System  is 
carried  out.  Many  of  the  points  our  green  fruit  is 
shipped  from  originate  on  the  Central  Pacific,  others 
would   be  completely  cut  off  from   the  main   Southern 


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Pacific  System  because  of  the  disconnection  of  many  of 
its  branches  if  the  Central  Pacific  is  separated  out. 
Green  fruit  cannot  be  delayed  in  transit,  and  we  cannot 
see  how  this  can  be  prevented  if  the  cars  must  be 
switched  through  junction  points  connecting  with  other 
railroads." — Fred  W.  Jacobs,  President. 

Mahaffy  &  Taylor,  Fruit  and  Vegetable  Packers  and 
Shippers,  Turlock,  Cal. — "Knowing  the  close  relation- 
ship between  the  Central  and  Southern  Pacific  railroads, 
and  the  practical  impossibility  of  separating  them  with- 
out serious  injury  to  both  properties,  it  is  my  belief  that 
the  dissolution  of  the  system  would  not  only  cripple 
the  Southern  Pacific,  but  would  afford  no  opportunity 
for  the  Union  Pacific  to  give  anything  like  the  present 
standard  of  service  rendered  the  shipping  public  by 
the  present  system." — D.  F.  Mahaffy. 

Bisceglia  Brothers,  Canners  of  Fruits  and  Vegetables, 
San  Jose,  Cal. — "We  can  see  no  possible  good  to  rail- 
road patrons  or  to  the  people  of  California  should  the 
lines  be  separated.  There  will  be  many  disadvantages  in 
the  re-arrangements  of  freight  train  runs,  terminals, 
etc.,  making  it  necessary  at  times  to  deal  with  two  sets 
of  officials  vs.  the  very  satisfactory  way  now  of  having 
but  the  one." — P.  F.  Bisceglia. 

G.  W.  Hume  Company,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "Owing 
to  the  different  locations  of  our  three  packing  plants  in 
California,  it  is  very  necessary  to  transfer  from  one 
cannery  to  another  our  products  for  assorted  cars.  The 
Southern  Pacific  Company  have  always  given  us  perfect 
service  which  they  were  able  to  do  on  account  of  their 
different  local  connections.  Any  change  would  be  very 
confusing  and  no  doubt  cause  us  additional  expense, 
in  the  transfer  from  one  cannery  to  another  of  our 
products." — Jay  Deming,  Treasurer. 

FRUIT  GROWERS  AND  SHIPPERS 

T.  J.  Horgan,  Shipper  of  Fruit,  Watsonville,  Cal. — 
"I  am  only  a  small  shipper  in  a  way,  but  I  ship  over 
these  roads  on  an  average  of  two  hundreds  cars  of 
produce  yearly,  principally  apples,  beans,  grains  and 
potatoes.  I  feel  that  it  would  be  a  great  loss  to  myself 
and  to  every  shipper  in  California  if  this  change  was 
made  and  I  hope  you  keep  up  the  good  work." 

Charles  C.  Chapman,  Fruit  Shipper,  Fullerton,  Cal. — 
"It  would  be  nothing  short  of  a  calamity  to  all  shippers 
along  the  Central  Pacific  and  some  of  the  branches  of 
the  Southern  Pacific  if  a  separation  should  be  perma- 
nently effected." 

The  A.  Block  Fruit  Co.,  Santa  Clara,  Cal.— "We  have 
given  the  matter  a  great  deal  of  thought  and  feel  sure 
that  the  change  would  be  of  no  benefit  to  the  general 
public  while  it  undoubtedly  would  be  a  great  disadvan- 
tage to  shippers,  as  ourselves." — W.  H.  McCormack. 

J.  H.  Flickinger  Company,  San  Jose,  Cal.— "We  have 
been  quite  extensive  shippers,  over  these  lines,  for  over 
thirty  years.  The  service  and  courtesies  we  have  re- 
ceived, are  far  superior  to  those  of  many  of  the  Eastern 
lines.  We  wish  your  Committee  to  know,  that  we  are 
strongly  in  favor  of  preventing  this  disruption,  if  pos- 
sible."— L.  F.  Graham,  President  and  General  Manager. 

Fontana  Farms  Company,  Fontana,  Cal. — "In  these 
days  of  reconstruction  which  were  bound  to  follow 
after  the  war.  it  does  seem  as  though  the  railroads,  and 
particularly  the  Southern  Pacific  which,  it  has  been  our 
experience,  is  a  leader  on  this  Coast  in  constructive 
development,  should  have  the  support  of  our  Govern- 
mental Agencies  in  constructive  measures,  rather  than 
efforts  to  tear  down." — A.  B.  Miller,  President. 

Fillmore  Packing  Company,  Fillmore,  Cal.  —  "As 
shippers  of  citrus  fruit  we  are  very  much  opposed  to 
the  separation  of  the  Central  and  Southern  Pacific 
Railroads.  Through  our  local  organizations,  as  well  as 
Chamber  of  Commerce,  we  have  already  gone  on  record 
to  that  effect." 

Westfall-Lane  Company,  Turlock,  Cal.— "We  person- 
ally believe  that  no  radical  movement  should  be  taken 


at  this  time  to  affect  the  operation  of  the  railroads,  and 
we  base  this  opinion  on  the  fact  that  there  is  much 
internal  unrest  in  the  United  States  today  that  affects 
the  farmers  and  growers;  and  any  additional  movement 
that  would  have  the  effect  to  destroy  an  operating 
policy  of  long  years  of  standing  will  not  have  the 
beneficial  effect  desired  by  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission." — D.  F.  Lane. 

Geo.  W.  Sill  &  Co.,  Growers  and  Shippers,  Watson- 
ville, Cal. — "It  has  been  the  writer's  privilege  during 
the  last  forty  years  to  do  a  very  large  volume  of  busi- 
ness with  this  railway  system  and  it  has  yet  to  come  to 
my  knowledge  that  I  have  in  any  way  whatsoever 
suffered  any  loss  or  been  put  to  any  inconvenience  on 
account  of  the  cooperation  between  these  two  railway 
systems. 

"I  cannot  help  but  feel  that  were  this  dissolution 
carried  into  effect  that  it  would  result  in  an  irreparable 
injury  to  the  agricultural,  manufacturing  and  snipping 
interests  of  this  state." — Geo.  W.  Sill. 

Pratt-Low  Preserving  Co.,  Santa  Clara,  Cal.— "We 
naturally  assume  that  you  are  counting  us  on  the  side 
of  those  opposed  to  the  threatened  disruption  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  lines." — F.  A.  Wilder,,  Sales  Manager. 

W.  F.  Toomey  &  Sons,  Packers  and  Shippers  of  Cali- 
fornia Fresh  and  Dried  Fruits,  Fresno,  Cal. — "We  are 
having  enough  trouble  these  days  as  it  is,  without 
making  unnecessary  trouble  on  lines  that  have  been 
operating  together,  and  have  been  allowed  to  operate 
together,  for  years  by  the  United  States  Government." 
— W.  F.  Toomey. 

Thomas-Body  Company,  Inc.,  Oakland,  Cal. — "We 
are  most  heartily  in  accord  with  your  ideas  and  trust 
that  you  will  be  successful  in  your  endeavor  to  keep 
the  two  railroads  as  one.  In  our  business,  particularly, 
it  is  necessary  that  we  have  the  best  of  fruit  service  in 
order  to  insure  the  quality  of  our  canned  goods.  If  there 
was  any  delay  in  the  shipments  of  fresh  fruit  it  would 
be  verv  harmful  to  both  our  industry  and  the  growers 
of  the  "State." — B.  H.  Body. 

Sebastopol  Apple  Growers  Union,  Sebastopol,  Cal. — 
"Will  gladly  cooperate  with  you  opposing  separation 
Central  and  Southern  Pacific." 

J.  H.  Strait  &  Co.,  Citrus  and  Deciduous  Fruits,  Red- 
lands,  Cal. — '"We  are  large  shippers  and  believe  that 
such  a  thing  would  be  very  unwise  and  we  hereby  pro- 
test such  action  if  any  way  can  be  found  to  avoid 
same." — J.  H.  Strait,  President. 

Kaweah  Lemon  Company,  Lemon  Cove,  Cal. — "The 
new  arrangement  would  make  a  terminal  at  Goshen 
Junction,  and  all  shipments  for  the  northern  part  of 
California  would  have  to  be  shipped  out  of  Lemon 
Cove  to  Goshen  on  the  Southern  Pacific  system,  trans- 
ferred out  of  Goshen  to  the  Central  Pacific  for  North- 
ern California  points,  and  on  over  the  Union  Pacific  for 
Washington  and  Oregon  destination,  making  three  rail- 
roads for  Portland  shipments." — C.  M.  Carr,  Secretary. 

California  Fruit  Exchange,  Sacramento,  Cal. — "And 
Further  Resolved,  that  the  General  Manager  of  the 
California  Fruit  Exchange  be  and  he  is  hereby  author- 
ized, directed  and  empowered  to  take  such  lawful, 
proper  and  sufficient  steps,  and  employ  such  proper 
measures  as  may  make  known  to  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission  of  the  United  States  the  advantages 
of  such  railroad  system,  as  conducted  by  the  Southern 
Pacific  Company,  to  the  growers  and  shippers  of  fruit 
and  vegetables  in  the  State  of  California  and  the  in- 
conveniences, delays,  damages  and  injuries  which  will 
inevitably  result  to  such  industries  if  said  railroads  are 
separated  and  operated  as  different  systems." — T.  J. 
Flammer.  Assistant  Secretary. 

Turlock  Melon  Growers  Association,  Inc.,  Turlock, 
Cal. — "We  wish  to  call  to  your  attention  the  fact  that 
practically  all  of  the  branch  lines  which  as  feeders  for 
the  Central  Pacific,  which  owns  the  line  running 
through  this  section  of  the  San  Joaquin  Valley,  are  the 


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property  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Company.  If  the  rail- 
roads are  divorced  as  a  result  of  the  edict  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  the  branch  lines  in  question  will  prac- 
tically begin  and  end  nowhere  and  their  value  to  the 
communities  which  they  are  now  serving  will  be  greatly 
impaired." — D.  E.  Cross,  Manager. 

GRAIN  SHIPPERS 

G.  W.  McNear,  Inc.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "The  sep- 
aration of  these  two  companies  would  not  only  tend  to 
inefficiency,  but  increased  cost  of  operation,  and  con- 
sequently higher  freight  and  passenger  rates.  The  busi- 
ness interests  of  this  State  should  most  emphatically 
protest  against  any  action  on  the  part  of  the  Govern- 
ment that  would  tend  to  separate  or  harass  the  unified 
control  of  these  two  great  corporations  so  vital  to  our 
Western  States,  even  though  there  may  have  been  a 
technical  violation  of  the  Sherman  Act." — G.  W.  Mc- 
Xear. 

Kitrick  9c  Hall,  Inc.,  Durham,  Cal. — "During  the  past 
five  years  we  have  been  heavy  shippers  of  grain  over 
Southern  Pacific  lines  to  Port  Costa.  San  Francisco. 
New  Orleans  and  Galveston,  and  on  that  account  are 
vitally  interested  in  the  proposed  dissolution  of  the 
Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  Systems. 

"We  are  in  hearty  sympathy  with  the  work  undertaken 
by  your  Committee  to  bring  to  the  attention  of  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  the  result  of  this 
proposed  dissolution,  and  desire  to  join  with  you  in 
urging  upon  the  Commission  such  action  as  will  permit 
these  two  systems  to  operate  as  a  unit  " — \V.  S.  Hall. 
Secretary. 

HARDWARE 

Bryant  A  Trott  Co.,  Hardware  Dealer*.  Santa  Maria. 
Cal. — "We  have  always  had  excellent  service  from  the 
Southern  Pacific  and  we  feel  that  if  the  Central  Pacific 
is  taken  away  from  the  Southern  Pacific,  the  effect  will 
be  a  disruption  of  the  present  wonderful  efficient  execu- 
tive and  operating  organization,  thereby  increasing 
overhead  charges  and  decreasing  efficiency,  which  would 
ultimately  result  in  the  lowering  of  the  standards  of 
service  and  the  probable  increase  in  the  cost  of  same." 

Fred  Gunther  Company.  Bakersfield,  Cal.— "We  are 
in  the  gas  engine,  pump  and  implement  business  in 
Bakersfield.  California,  and  receive  annually  from  points 
in  the  Fast  125  to  ISO  tons  of  freight.  Believing  that 
the  proposed  dismemberment  would  be  fatal  to  our 
business,  since  shipment  would  have  to  be  made  over 
two  railroads,  thus  increasing  freight  costs  and  causing 
delays.  I  am  taking  this  means  of  protesting  the  dis- 
memberment of  the  Southern  Pacific  System  into  the 
Central  Pacific  and  Southern  Pacific.  Companies." — 
Fred  Gunther. 

Turner  Hardware  9c  Implement  Co.,  Modesto,  Cal. — 
"Wr  wish  to  state  that  we  believe  such  a  separation 
would  result  in  a  great  detriment  to  the  State  of  Cali- 
fornia."— J.  D.  Turner. 

California  Hardware  Company.  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 
"We  would  advise  that,  as  a  heavv  shipper,  distributing 
goods  throughout  California,  Nevada,  Arizona,  and 
Utah,  also  as  a  domestic  importer  from  Atlantic  and 
Middle  West  territory,  we  arc  unable  to  see  wherein 
any  good  would  be  accomplished  by  its  disruption." — 
S.  Crandall.  President. 

Baker.  Hamilton  9c  Pacific  Company.  San  Francisco. 
Cal. — 'The  hreaking-up  of  the  two  roads  means  con- 
tusion and  annoyance  to  shippers,  therefore,  an  impair- 
ment of  the  present  service,  and  we  believe  such  action 
would  be  very  injurious  to  the  best  interests  of  the 
State." — Alexander  Hamilton.   President. 

Willard  Hardware  Co..  Stockton.  Cal.— "Our  under- 
standing of  such  a  change  would  create  many  delays 
and  annoyances  to  shippers." — G.  A    Willard. 


IRON  AND  STEEL 

The  Republic  Steel  Package  Company,  Richmond, 
Cal. — "We  certainly  feel  that  these  two  railroads  should 
continue  to  operate  as  they  have  operated  in  the  past 
and  that  any  change  in  the  program  would  be  a  serious 
detriment  to  California  and  the  Pacific  Coast  shippers." 
— S.  B.  Merry,  General  Manager. 

Union  Iron  Works  of  Los  Angeles,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
— •"We  are  highly  in  accord  with  the  work  you  are 
undertaking  for  the  preservation  of  the  present  organi- 
zation of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific  sys- 
tems."—H.  G.  Miller,  President. 

Osbun  Iron  Works,  Redlands,  Cal. — "Regarding  the 
segregation  of  the  Central  and  Southern  Pacific,  we 
absolutely  think  it  would  be  a  calamity  to  California 
shippers.  Seems  absolutely  uncalled  for." — A.  Osbun, 
Proprietor. 

Bakersfield  Iron  Works,  Bakersfield,  Cal. — "Our  firm 
is  in  business  in  Bakersfield,  California,  and  shipments 
from  these  two  systems  consolidated  as  one  amounts 
to  from  20  to  25  cars  of  material  a  year,  besides  a  great 

fuantity  of  individual  freight  from  San  Francisco  to 
bakersfield.  Also  outgoing  freight  to  northern  points 
in  California. 

"We  believe  that  the  proposed  dismemberment  would 
seriously  affect  our  business  since  the  shipments  would 
have  to  be  routed  over  two  railroads,  thus  increasing 
delay,  inconvenience  and  freight  cost.  In  many  cases 
this  would  prevent  us  from  making  prompt  delivery  to 
our  customers  and  cause  loss  of  business." — W.  B.  Row- 
.  land.  Manager. 

The  American  Rolling  Mill  Company  of  California, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. — "\\>  cannot  see  where  there  would 
be  any  advantage  to  the  shippers  in  this  change,  but 
undoubtedly  there  would  be  innumerable  hardships  en- 
countered. The  Southern  Pacific  Company  has  always 
been  entirely  neutral  in  soliciting  west-bound  freight 
and  has  without  question  accepted  our  routing  via  the 
Union  Pacific-Southern  Pacific  lines  when  we  have 
routed  freight  in  this  manner." — H.  O.  Stevens,  Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager. 

Pacific  Foundry  Company,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "We 
feel  very  certain  that  such  action  would  result  in  in- 
creased rates  and  impaired  service  because  of  obviously 
higher  costs  and  divided  authority." — Edw.  J.  Fowler, 
President. 

LUMBER 

Western  Lumber  Company,  Sacramento,  Cal. — 
"Should  the  railroad  be  separated  it  will  be  necessary 
for  us  to  bring  our  merchandise  over  two  separate  lines 
which  will  cause  an  unnecessary  delay." — F.  S.  Car- 
penter. 

Coos  Bay  Lumber  Company.  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"Take  for  instance  the  individual  case  of  our  company. 
We  manufacture  between  one  hundred  and  fifty  and 
two  hundred  million  feet  of  lumber  per  annum,  on  Coos 
Bay.  Oregon,  (having  an  investment  of  more  than  $25,- 
000,000)  transport  the  same  by  water  to  our  Distribu- 
ting and  Remanufacturing  Yard  at  Bay  Point  on  Suisun 
Bay.  just  Bast  <>f  Avon,  re-shipping  the  same  prin- 
cipally by  rail  (say  approximately  eight  thousand  car- 
loads) down  the  San  Joaquin  Valley  to  Bakersfield  and 
beyond  even  to  I.os  Angeles,  and  sonic  Fast  to  adjoin- 
ing States  and  beyond.  What  this  disruption  would 
mean  to  our  industry  is  inconceivable  and  it  seems  al- 
most incredible  that  such  a  calamity  should  befall  a 
commnnitv  of  three-quarters  of  a  million  people,  now 
established  around  San  Francisco  Bay  and  the  territory 
tributary  thereto." — C.  A.  Smith,  President. 

The  Charles  Nelson  Company.  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"In  my  opinion  there  is  absolutely  nothing  to  be  said  in 
favor  of  the  proposed  move — there  is  absolutely  nothing 
gained  by  any  individual  corporation,  set,  clique,  political 
party,  municipality.  State,  or  the  whole  United  States, 
except  perhaps,  the  satisfying  of  an  unreasonable,  non- 
sensical, legal  technicality." — James  Tyson,  President. 


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Valley  Lumber  Company,  Fresno,  Cal. — "Green  fruit, 
shipped  from  this  part  of  the  State  will  probably  be 
delayed  at  terminals  for  a  longer  period  of  time  than 
it  can  stand." — H.  E.  Verble,  District  Manager. 

Yancey  Lumber  Company,  Newman,  Cal. — "The  Cen- 
tral Pacific  and  Southern  Pacific  should  be  operated  as 
one  road  and  under  one  management.  Any  other  method 
of  operation  would  surely  be  not  as  economical  and  it 
seems  to  the  writer  that  the  interests  of  the  shippers 
would  certainly  be  conserved  by  operating  under  one 
management." — J.  H.  Yancey,  President. 

The  Burnett  Lumber  Company,  Tulare,  Cal.— "If  this 
dissolution  is  carried  into  effect  practically  all  ship- 
ments, both  carload  and  less  than  carload  lots,  being 
carried  at  the  present  time  direct  to  us  from  the  manu- 
facturers over  one  system,  would  have  to  be  transferred 
from  one  to  three  times." — G.  C.  Burnet,  President  and 
Manager. 

R.  B.  Swayne,  Inc.,  Poles,  Piling,  Cross  Arms,  Mining 
Timber,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "I  have  recently  estab- 
lished a  concentrating  yard  and  treating  plant  at  Red- 
ding, California,  for  the  storage  and  creosoting  of  cedar 
poles.  In  order  to  make  this  possible  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific System  granted  a  treating  in  transit  rate  enabling 
us  to  ship  poles  into  the  transit  station  and  after  treat- 
ment to  forward  to  final  destination,  or,  as  termed, 
'Transit  destination'  at  a  cent  and  a  half  per  hundred 
over  the  through  rate  from  originating  point  to  said 
final  transit  destination  with  certain  other  conditions. 
Our  transit  destination  covers  all  points  in  California 
reached  by  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  as  a  system. 

"If  these  two  roads  were  divorced  and  maintained  as 
a  separate  system,  we  cannot  see  how  any  equitable 
arrangement  can  possibly  be  made  to  carry  out  the 
terms  of  the  treating  in  transit  privilege  and  it  would 
produce  chaos  in  my  particular  business  with  a  probable 
great  increase  in  the  cost  of  handling  and  shipping, 
which  would  either  have  to  be  borne  by  ourselves  or 
by  our  customers." — R.  B.  Swayne,  President. 

E.  K.  Wood  Lumber  Company,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 
"My  personal  opinion  is  that  if  the  Central  Pacific  and 
Southern  Pacific  Railway  Companies  can  be  legally 
operated  as  a  unit — it  would  be  best  to  let  them  con- 
tinue, as  I  see  nothing  to  be  gained  by  operating  each 
road  as  a  separate  unit." — Frank  Curran. 

Western  Hardwood  Lumber  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 
"I  have  before  me  a  map  of  the  lines  of  the  Southern 
Pacific-Central  Pacific  system,  showing  the  division  of 
ownership  of  the  various  lines,  and  cannot  but  feel  that 
a  separation  of  these  properties,  requiring  independent 
operation,  would  result  in  vastly  increased  operating 
expenses  and  endless  confusion;  that  no  material  gain 
would  result  to  any  section  of  the  Pacific  Coast;  and 
that,  on  the  contrary,  the  economical  handling  of  traffic 
would  be  seriously  handicapped." — D.  J.  Cahill,  Presi- 
dent. 

Pacific  Lumber  Company,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "Many 
branch  lines  of  the  Central  Pacific  are  owned  by  the 
Southern  Pacific.  These  will  be  cut  off  from  through 
service  and  the  communities  which  they  serve  will  be 
seriously  injured." — Donald  MacDonald,  Treasurer. 

W.    R.    Spalding    Lumber    Co.,    Visalia,    Cal.— "Our 

freight  bills  run  into  many  thousands  of  dollars  each 
year.  The  result  of  the  tearing  of  the  Central  Pacific 
Railroad  Company's  road  from  that  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  Railroad  Company  would  be  to  give  us  two 
separate  railroad  systems  to  render  the  service  now 
efficiently  performed  by  the  single  unified  system  which 
we  have  had  up  to  the  present  time." — W.  R.  Spalding, 
President. 

Sugar  Pine  Lumber  Company,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 

'"As  a  lumberman,  who  has  been  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  in  this  State  for  more  than  thirty  years,  I  wish 
to  express  my  conviction  that  the  interest  of  lumber 
and  other  shippers  would  be  seriously  and  adversely 
affected  by  the  severance  of  the  Southern   Pacific  and 


the  Central  Pacific  railroad  systems." — E.  H.  Cox,  Vice- 
President. 
MANUFACTURERS 

Schloss  Manufacturing  Co..  Big  Ben  Clocks. — "The 
decision  of  the  Court  in  this  case  would  work  a  calamity 
to  the  Pacific  Coast.  It  would  destroy  the  system  of 
consolidation  of  shipment  of  perishable  crops  into  train- 
loads  at  Sacramento  or  Roseville,  Cal.,  double  the  man- 
agement and  expense  which  ultimately  falls  on  the  con- 
sumer. It  would  disrupt  the  entire  system  of  California 
distribution  of  fruit,  and  the  Pacific  Coast  distribution 
of  the  same  to  the  north  and  south.  It  would  increase 
the  mileage  of  passenger  service,  in  fact,  we  deplore  the 
result  that  would  ensue  in  the  carrying  out  of  this 
policy. 

"We  trust  that  united  action  of  large  Pacific  Coast 
shippers,  like  ourselves,  will  prevent  this  action." — Ben 
J.  Schloss. 

United  Chemical  Works,  Inc.,  Citrus  By-Products, 
Corona,  Cal. — Affecting  us  directly  is  the  shook  ques- 
tion. Four  thousand  cars  of  shook  come  to  the  citrus 
growers  of  Southern  California  from  the  timber  dis- 
tricts in  the  northern  part  of  the  State.  Both  Central 
and  Southern  Pacific  lines  are  used  in  this  service,  and. 
if  it  were  necessary  to  route  these  over  a  longer  line 
and  thus  add  to  the  ton  mile  cost,  it  would  add  seriously 
to  the  cost  of  our  shook.  We  are  already  over-burdened 
by  the  expense  of  this  department." — E.  T.  Brink,  Man- 
ager. 

Giant  Powder  Company,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "We 
very  readily  appreciate  the  extreme  difficulty  and  higher 
costs  that  will  be  necessary  under  the  separation  of  the 
two  systems  to  obtain  our  supplies  of  raw  materials  and 
to  have  our  finished  product  reach  our  customers." — 
J.  A.  Rettew,  Traffic  Manager. 

The  Warnerlite  Co.,  Pasadena,  Cal. — "As  it  occurs  to 
us,  no  possible  good  can  come  from  the  disruption  of 
the  Southern  Pacific  System.  On  the  other  hand,  it 
would  do  a  great  deal  of  harm,  in  fact,  it  would  prac- 
tically paralyze  industry,  especially  on  the  Pacific 
Coast." — W.  F.  Warner,  President. 

Levi  Strauss  &  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "As  dis- 
tributors of  merchandise  upon  a  large  scale  to  Pacific 
Coast  points,  extending  from  the  most  northern  to  the 
most  southern,  and  also  to  points  east  of  San  Fran- 
cisco as  far  as  Colorado  and  Wyoming,  we  are  ma- 
terially interested  in  all  transportation  problems  af- 
fecting the  Pacific  Coast,  and  are  naturally  extremely 
solicitous  of  how  we  will  be  affected  by  the  separation 
of  the  Central  Pacific  Railway  from  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific System.  It  is  not  our  purpose  to  discuss  or  crit- 
icise the  legal  aspect;  we  can  only  reason  it  out  from 
a  business  point  of  view,  and  as  such  we  are  fearful 
that  the  outcome  of  this  separation  will  cause  a  great 
deal  of  confusion  and  delay  in  the  matter  of  shipment 
to  all  points  that  will  be  affected  by  the  separation." — 
A.  Hirschfeld,  Secretary. 

Trojan  Powder  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "Since  the 
decision  was  rendered  we  have  followed  the  matter  even 
more  closely  than  before,  because  we  believe  by  sep- 
arating the  Central  Pacific  from  the  Southern  Pacific 
it  is  going  to  work  considerable  hardship  on  us." — 
R.  C.  Bray,  Traffic  Manager. 

California  Moline  Plow  Co.,  Stockton.  Cal. — "The» 
public  at  large  would  never  gain  a  benefit  from  this 
separation,  and  large  shippers  like  ourselves  would  have 
inconveniences  brought  before  them,  by  a  complication 
of  lines  that  would  only  tend  to  cause  greater  freight 
congestion.  Not  only  that,  it  would  destroy  the  unifi- 
cation of  the  Southern  Pacific's  Coast  lines — as  the 
matter  now  stands,  we  have  direct  routing  from  Stock- 
ton to  Portland;  from  Stockton  to  Salt  Lake,  and  Reno: 
not  only  that,  it  would  greatly  interfere  with  interstate 
shipping  from  Stockton  to  Chico,  and  other  inland 
points,  now  touched  by  the  Central  System,  and  after 
all  has  been  said  and  done,  not  one  single  corporation 
or  individual  would  be  benefitted  in  the  least." — B.  W. 
Root,  Manager. 


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California  Crate  Co.,  Santa  Ana,  Cal  —  "We  are  very 
much  opposed  to  the  contemplated  action  for  the  fol- 
lowing reasons:  We  ship  from  Northern  and  North- 
eastern California  every  year  something  like  100  car- 
loads of  timber  products  for  use  in  our  manufacturing 
operations  When  in  the  midst  of  our  busy  season  it 
is  imperative  that  our  shipments  receive  prompt  atten- 
tion and  reach  us  with  no  unnecessary  delays.  Our 
experience  tends  to  show  that  where  these  shipments 
come  all  the  way  via  one  line,  we  get  much  quicker  ac- 
tion than  where  they  are  shipped  over  two  or  more 
lines,  the  delays  being  caused  apparently  by  the  trans- 
fer from  one  line  to  another,  cars  often  being  tied  up 
for  several  days  at  such  junction  point." — Fred  P. 
Jayne,  President  and  Manager. 

California  Spray-Chemical  Co.,  Watsonville.  Cal.— "In 
reply  to  your  letter  of  July  3  in  regard  to  the  disrup- 
tion of  the  Southern  Pacific  System,  beg  to  state  that 
we  are  not  in  favor  of  the  disruption,  as  we  believe 
this  will  mitigate  against  the  best  users  of  the  pres- 
ent system." — E.  E.  Luther,  General  Manager. 

California  Corrugated  Culvert  Co.,  Los  Angeles.  Cal. 
— "We  believe  that  it  is  to  the  best  interests  of  our 
Southern  factory,  as  well  as  our  main  factory  located 
in  Berkeley,  that  the  Central  Pacific  and  Southern  Pa- 
cific operate  as  a  unit." — W.  E.  Cochran. 

California  Barrel  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "From 
every  practical  standpoint  it  would  seem  disastrous  to 
permit  this  disruption  to  take  place.  We  have  today 
ample  competition.  The  lines  as  at  present  constituted 
and  related  give  us  a  remarkably  effective  avenue  of 
ingress  and  egress  under  the  most  favorable  circum- 
stances, and  I  cannot  possibly  see  any  gain  whatever 
to  be  derived  from  disrupting  this  state  of  affairs." — 
Koster.  President. 

California  Pottery  Co..  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "The 
■lution  would  tend  to  embarrass  the  business  of 
all — if  not  permanently,  it  at  least  would  tentatively — 
and  all  business  lines  would  have  to  accomodate  them- 
selves to  the  situation,  and  finally  the  public  would 
bear  the  brunt  of  it." — J.  F.  Creegan,  Secretary. 

Crown  Willamette  Paper  Co..  San  Francisco.  Cal. — 
"The  natural  consequences  of  the  two-line  service  are 
a  slowed-up  movement  account  of  interchange,  and  we 
are,  in  addition,  apprehensive  of  increased  freight  rates — 
the  normal  order  of  events  being  that  a  two-line  haul 
service  is  more  expensive  than  a  one-line  haul  service, 
and  it  naturally  follows  that  the  freight  rates  are 
higher." — John  J.  Seid,  Traffic  Manager. 

N.  O.  Nelson  Manufacturing  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 
"After  looking  into  the  right  of  ways  owned  by  the 
different  and  separate  corporations,  we  are  certainly 
of  the  opinion  that  the  shippers  throughout  California 
will  be  up  against  a  serious  handicap,  if  a  dissolution 
is  forced  through  the  Supreme  Court,  and  we  wish  to 
say  for  the  N.  O.  Nelson  Manufacturing  Co..  that  we 
are  heartily  in  favor  of  the  old  merger  of  these  two 
tis." — M.  T.  Ganderup,  Manager  Credit  Dept. 

United  Chemical  Works,  Inc.,  Corona.  Cal.— 'The 
United  Chemical  Works  and  the  El  Cerrito  Ranch  Co. 
of  Corona  wish  to  add  their  protest  to  that  of  your* 
against  the  separation  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and 
Central  Pacific  Railroads.  Any  action  which  will  tend 
to  lessen  the  efficiency  or  economy  with  which  the  rail- 
roads can  be  operated  is  against  public  welfare.  We 
deplore  anv  action  which  tends  toward  this  end." — 
E.  T.  Brink,  Manager. 

Bosch  Pipe  ft  Supply  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.— "\W 
would  like  very  much  to  see  the  Interstate  Commerce 
Commission  exercise  their  power  on  the  Railway  Trans- 
portation Act  of  1920  to  keep  this  system  intact,  as  we 
cannot  see  at  the  present  time  any  particular  good  to 
be  derived  from  dismemberment  " — W.   F.  Geddcs. 

International  Harvester  Co.  of  America.  San  Francis- 
co, Cal. — "It  would  certainly  be  a  calamity  if  it  i- 
found   necessary   to  operate   the   Southern    Pacific   and 


Central  Pacific  Railways  as  separate  systems,  consid- 
ering how  they  are  connected,  and  we  are  in  hopes  that 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  will  find  means 
of  operating  the  two  systems  as  a  unit." — W.  G.  Cris- 
well.  Manager  San  Francisco  Branch. 

Fairbanks,  Morse  ft  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.— "This  is 
not  a  time,  when  the  world  is  just  about  taking  on  a 
new  lease  of  life  and  reorganizing  itself  for  the  biggest 
commercial  activity  that  this  globe  has  ever  seen,  to 
b^gin  disrupting,  but  rather  everything  should  be  tend- 
ing toward  strengthening  the  systems  of  transporta- 
tion, particularly  toward  the  Pacific,  so  that  when  the 
big  trans-Pacific  movement  begins,  every  avenue  will 
be  in  its  prime  to  move  that  traffic  with  dispatch. — 
S.  F.  Forbes,  Pacific  Coast  Manager. 

Buckingham  ft  Hecht.  Boots  and  Shoes,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal. — "We  are  making  shipments  from  San  Fran- 
cisco all  over  the  Pacific  Coast  from  the  Mexican  Bor- 
der to  the  Canadian  Border,  and  east  to  the  Rockies, 
and  commercial  life  depends  so  greatly  upon  efficient 
railroad  service  that  we  can  hardly  conceive  of  two 
disjointed  railroads  under  separate  management  trying 
to  give  service  over  this  territory  successfully.  We 
hope  that  every  means  will  be  taken  so  that  our  pres- 
ent railroad  situation  may  be  maintained.  The  diffi- 
culties that  would  confront  us,  and  we  fear  the  rail- 
roads, under  two  managements,  are  so  many  and  varied 
and  so  well  known  that  it  does  not  appear  necessary  to 
us  at  this  time  to  bring  them  before  those  who  should 
take  them  into  consideration,  so  as  not  to  disturb  our 
present  very  advantageous  position." — Eli  H.  Wiet, 
President  and  General  Manager. 

Stauffer  Chemical  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal.— "It  would 
appear  to  the  writer  even  as  a  layman  on  the  subject 
that  a  segregation  of  the  two  lines  in  question  would 
only  result  in  unnecessary  complications  that  would 
confront  such  a  segregation  and  would  not  work  to 
the  advantage  of  the  manufacturers  and  shippers  of  this 
State." — John  Stauffer,  Jr.,  Manager. 

The  Paraffine  Companies,  Inc..  San  Francisco,  Cal.— 
"There  is  no  doubt  that  the  enforcement  of  this  deci- 
sion would  be  disastrous  to  this  part  of  California." — 
A.  R.  Moylan,  Traffic  Manager. 

Sperry  Flour  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "We  cannot 
help  but  feel  that  dealing  with  two  railroads  on  the 
same  distribution  as  we  have  had  in  the  past,  dealing 
with  only  one,  will  bring  many  complications.  We  be- 
lieve that  we  can  secure  better  distribution,  depending 
upon  a  one-line  haul,  and  that  in  the  event  of  any  ad- 
justment of  freight  rates,  we  can  more  reasonably  ex- 
pect a  revision  down  if  these  two  roads  are  operated 
as  one,  than  if  they  were  operated  as  two  or  more  roads, 
it  being  self-evident  that  the  cost  of  operating  as  two 
or  fiore  roads  would  he  greater  than  if  operating  as 
one."— S.  B.  McNcar.  Vice-President. 

Southern  Pac'fic  Milling  Co.,  Lompoc,  Cal. — "A  dis- 
ruption of  the  systems  would  necessarily  mean  a  dis- 
ruption of  all  matters  connected  with  the  service  there- 
with and  also  the  existing  tariffs." — A.  C.  Whittemore, 
Agent. 

W.  P.  Fuller  ft  Co.,  San  Francisco.  Cal.— "We  are 
very  much  opposed  to  the  proposed  disruption  of  the 
Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  System;  believing  the 
same  would  work  a  hardship  on  shippers  and  he  in- 
jurious to  the  community  in  every  way." — I.  F.  Little- 
field,  President. 

The  Fleischmann  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "In  our 
opinion  this  dissolution  would  be  nothing  short  of  a 
calamity  to  the  interests  of  the  State  and  to  each 
individual  shipper." — H.  W.  Robinson,  Manager. 

Ames  Harris  Neville  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "Ship- 
pers at  this  time  are  staggering  under  a  sufficient  num- 
ber of  difficulties  to  cause  the  proposed  matter  under 
discussion  to  be  looked  upon  with  nothing  short  of 
alarm.  T  am  at  a  loss  to  understand  where  there  would 
be  any  advantage  to  the  public  in  this  matter,  and  I 


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most  earnestly  hope  that  the  hearing  before  the  Inter- 
state Commerce  Commission  will  result  in  such  action 
as  will  allow  shipping  interests  to  continue  to  operate 
under  the  conditions,  as  regards  these  two  railroads,  as 
they  now  exist." — L.  VV.  Harris,  Member  of  the  Gen- 
eral Committee  and  Vice-President. 

Anderson  Barngrover  Mfg.  Co.,  San  Jose,  Cal. — "I 
cannot  see  anything  but  trouble  for  the  shipper  and 
general  public  if  this  order  is  carried  out." — F.  L.  Bur- 
rell,  General  Manager. 

Acme  White  Lead  and  Color  Works,  San  Francisco, 
Cal. — "The  confusion,  congestion  and  terminal  delays 
this  dissolution  must  cause  on  practically  any  and  all 
shipments,  we  very  much  doubt  if  any  one  can  conceive. 
It  looks  to  us  like  a  death  bomb  to  San  Francisco  busi- 
ness."— R.  M.  Billings,  Manager. 

Pacific  Wire  Rope  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — "This 
company  is  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  a  product 
used  extensively  in  the  oil  fields,  logging  camps  and 
mines,  and  therefore  the  freest  and  best  distribution  of 
our  commodity  to  all  Western  and  Pacific  Coast  terri- 
tory is  helpful  to  our  industry,  as  we  are  located  a  long 
distance  from  our  supply  of  raw  material.  Experience 
has  taught  us  that  dealing  with  one  transportation  line 
instead  of  several  transferring  lines  is  more  efficient 
and  satisfactory,  therefore  as  a  manufacturer  we  would 
regret  a  separation  of  the  Central  Pacific  from  the 
Southern   Pacific." — Edward  J.  Bowen,  Secretary. 

Frank  &  Hyman,  Inc.,  Foot  Wear  for  Women,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. — "We  are  in  receipt  of  your  letter  of 
June  23  and  we  consider  that  if  the  Southern  Pacific 
and  Central  Pacific  Railroads  were  dismembered,  it 
would  be  a  great  blow  to  the  Pacific  Coast." — W.  L. 
Hyman.  Secretary. 

MILLERS 

Western  Milling  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "I  am 
with  you,  both  as  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce and  as  a  shipper  heavily  interested  in  railroad 
transportation,  in  discouraging  the  disruption  of  the 
Southern  Pacific." — J.  A.  Macdonald,  President. 

MINES 

Chamber  of  Mines  and  Oils,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — "A 
committee  duly  appointed  by  this  organization,  after  a 
fair  and  impartial  study  of  the  subject,  not  only  as  pre- 
sented by  both  of  the  railroad  companies,  but  by  a 
careful  analysis  of  the  maps,  and  a  study  of  the  after- 
effects on  Southern  California  and  the  State  at  large, 
has  recommended — and  our  board  of  directors,  after 
individual  and  collective  consideration  has  concurred  in 
that  recommendation,  and  is  firmly  of  the  opinion — 
that  a  continuation  of  the  present  Southern  Pacific- 
Central  Pacific  Lines  operating  as  one  system,  will  re- 
dound to  the  best  interests  of  the  citizens  of  this  Slftte. 

"Our  board  of  directors  is  satisfied  that  regulation 
by  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  and  by  the 
State  Railroad  Commission  is  of  such  a  character  that 
the  citizens  of  this  State  need  have  nothing  to  fear 
from  any  alleged  lack  of  competition,  nor  from  a  de- 
sire on  the  part  of  any  railroad  to  monopolize  carrying 
trade  to  the  detriment  of  shippers  and  producers." — 
I.  Q.  Fuqua,  President. 

Compagnie  du  Boleo,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "The  Com- 
pagnie  du  Boleo  spends  in  San  Francisco  about  two 
million  dollars  yearly  for  supplies  and  machinery  for 
their  Mexican  mines.  If  freight  deliveries  were  to  be 
upset  by  the  unmerging  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and 
Central  Pacific,  we  will  be  obliged  to  move  our  Agency 
•lsewhere,  very  likely  to  Vancouver.  Br.  Columbia." 

Idaho  Maryland  Mines  Co.,  Grass  Valley,  Cal. — "I  am 
convinced  that  the  disruption  of  the  Southern  Pacific- 
Central  Pacific  System  would  be  decidedly  detrimental 
to  the  best  interests  of  the  company  I  am  representing, 
and  wish  at  this  time,  or  any  future  time,  to  go  on 
record  as  being  very  much  against  any  such  move." — 
J.  A.  Fulton,  Manager. 


American  Smelters  Securities  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

— "We  are  engaged  in  smelting  and  refining  very  large 
tonnages  of  ores  and  bullion  which  comes  to  us  from  all 
points  on  the  entire  system,  also  large  tonnages  of  raw 
materials,  such  as  fuel,  flux  and  general  supplies,  for  our 
operations  are  likewise  received  from  all  points.  The 
present  railroad  systems  serving  the  entire  Pacific  Coast 
have  proven  so  satisfactory  that  we  believe  a  dismem- 
berment would  cause  inestimable  losses  to  ourselves 
as  well  as  to  all  producers  and  manufacturers  on  this 
coast." — E.  B.  Braden,  General  Manager. 

Jo  Rand  Reduction  &  Smelting  Co.,  Bakersfield,  Cal. 
— '"The  proposed  dismemberment  would  be  fatal  to  all 
the  business  interests  in  California,  since  shipments 
would  have  to  be  made  over  two  railroads  and  this 
would  increase  freight  costs  by  having  to  put  two 
locals  instead  of  one  through  rate,  and  it  would  also 
cause  inconvenient  delays."-—  R.  L.  Gilmore,  Secretary 
and  Treasurer. 

MINING  ENGINEERS 

M.  L.  Requa,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "We  are  con- 
fronted with  the  absurd  situation  that  the  Union  Pa- 
cific, now  having  outlets  at  Portland,  Seattle  and  Los 
Angeles,  is  proposing,  under  the  cloak  of  a  Supreme 
Court  decision,  to  acquire  a  third  outlet  on  San  Fran- 
cisco bay.  In  other  words,  the  Union  Pacific  may  con- 
trol and  own  outlets  to  the  three  important  terminals 
upon  the  Pacific  Ocean,  but  it  is  argued  that  the 
Southern  Pacific  has  no  such  right.  The  absurdity  of 
it  all  is  so  obvious  that  it  needs  no  comment." 

MISCELLANEOUS 

John  I.  Nolan,  Committee  on  Labor,  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, Washington,  D.  C. — "These  two  roads  are  so 
closely  entwined  that  1  believe  it  would  be  harmful  to 
the  entire  West  if  the  Supreme  Court  decree  should  be 
carried  out." 

Bekins  Storage  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — "From  an 
economical  standpoint,  I  am  satisfied  that  such  a  move 
would  be  exceedingly  detrimental  to  both  roads  and  no 
doubt  later  result  in  higher  freight  rates." — Wm.  A. 
Norris. 

Bakersfield  Cycle  &  Sporting  Goods,  Bakersfield,  Cal. 
— "Believing  that  the  proposed  dismemberment  would 
be  fatal  to  my  business,  since  shipments  would  have  to 
be  routed  over  two  railroads,  thus  increasing  freight 
costs  and  causing  inconvenient  delays,  I  am  taking  this 
means  of  protesting  the  dismemberment  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  System  into  the  Central  Pacific  and  Southern 
Pacific  Companies." — Paul  R.  Fechtner,  Owner  and 
Manager. 

Pacific  Egg  Producers,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "In  ad- 
dition to  the  numerous  objectionable  features  already 
discussed,  involved  in  the  dissolution  of  the  Southern 
Pacific-Central  Pacific,  the  following  situation,  it  seems 
to  me,  is  of  importance  to  the  producers  and  handlers 
of  perishable  and  breakable  traffic  to  and  from  points 
along  these  lines  where  two  companies'  service  would 
be  involved. 

"Unless  some  joint  arrangement  were  made  between  the 
two  separate  railroad  lines  for  joint  through  service  cor- 
responding with  the  present  through  cars  or  expedited 
service  maintained  for  such  traffic  by  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific, such  perishable  or  breakable  products  would  suf- 
fer delays  and  damage  incident  to  interchange  from  one 
line  to  another  at  junction  points.  Such  points  of  inter- 
change are  usually  congested,  resulting  in  rough  handl- 
ing and  delays  from  one  train  to  another,  with  possible 
missed  connections.  A  considerable  amount  of  dam- 
age by  deterioration  and  breakage  would  no  doubt  fol- 
low, inasmuch  as  there  are  heavy  producing  districts 
along  the  lines  of  both  railroads.  This  would  apply 
particularly  to  eggs  and  highly  perishable  fruits  and 
vegetables  from  the  producers  to  centralizing  stations." 
— B.  F.  McKibben,  Traffic  Manager. 


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Purchasing  Agents'  Association  of  Northern  Califor- 
nia, San  Francisco,  CaL — "Dismemberment  of  this  great 
system  would  work  hardship  and  possible  disaster  to 
the  manufacturing  and  agricultural  interests  of  the 
State  of  California  through  increased  operating  costs 
and  inferior  service  " 

The  Poultry  Keepers'  Association  of  Petaluma,  Cal., 
Petaluma,  CaL — "We  will  be  glad  to  co-operate  in  any 
manner  in  which  we  can  in  getting  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission  to  act  in  modifying  this  decision." — 
Knight,  President. 

Poultry  Producers  of  Southern  California,  Los  An- 
geles, CaL — "In  reply  to  your  wire  of  June  2,  in  ref- 
erence to  the  Supreme  Court  decree  separating  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  and  the  Southern  Pacific,  wish  to  advise  you 
that  our  executive  committee,  in  session  yesterday, 
authorized  and  instructed  Cornele  G.  Ross,  president  ot 
our  association,  to  co-operate  with  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  of  San  Francisco  and  likewise  the  Chamber 
of  Commerce  of  Los  Angeles  in  any  way  that  he  may 
deem  advisable  in  reference  to  the  matter." — F.  R.  Will- 
iams, Secretary. 

Tuolumne  County  Farm  Bureau,  Sonora,  Tuolumne 
County,  California. — "In  reply  to  your  letter  regarding 
a  reparation  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific 
lines.  I  wish  to  state  that  I  am  in  favor  of  the  lawful 
means  of  these  roads  operating  as  a  unit.  1  believe  that 
the  separation  of  these  roads  will  tend  to  reduce  their 
ability  to  ship  products,  particularly  the  perishable  one*, 
out  of  the  State." — H.  H.  Sherrard,  Horticultural  Com- 
■  iner. 

C.  N.  Thorup  Co.,   Salinas,  CaL— "Wc   feel   that   the 
disruption  ol  the  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific   - 
tern   would   be  a  great   calamity   to  San    Francisco   and 
tributary  territory." — F.  E.  Dayton. 

MUSICAL  INSTRUMENTS 

Sherman,  Clay  &  Co.,  San  Francisco,  CaL— "It  is  only 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  the  separation  of  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  from  the  Southern  Pacific  will  necessitate 
duplication  of  equipment  as  pertains  to  repair  th 
freight  and  passenger  depots,  accounting  offices,  etc.. 
at  junction  points  of  the  above  two  mentioned  com- 
panies."—  F.   VV.  Stephenson,  Secretary. 

NUT  GROWERS  AND  SHIPPERS 

California    Almond    Growers'    Exchange,    San    Fran- 
cisco,   CaL — "The     California     Almond     Growers' 
change,  shippers  of  5.000  to  7,000  tons  yearly  and  re| 
anting  a  membership  of  approximately  3,000  grow 

with  deep  concern  the  threatened  dismemberment 
of  the  Central  Pacific-Southern  Pacific  System  and  sug- 
gest that  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  of  which  we  are 
members,  appear  before  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
ion.  earnestly  urging  the  continued  operation  of 
this  great  system  as  a  unit. 

"Our  organization  covers  twenty-two  counties  in  the 
State  and  represents  75  per  cent  of  the  almond  tonnage 
shipped.  It  is  one  of  the  vital  elements  of  our  success 
that  our  shipments  shall  go  forward  promptly  and  at 
the  least  possible  cost  and  that  we  shall  be  able  t.> 
deal  throughout  the  State  with  a  responsible  railroad 
organization.  The  dismemberment  of  the  Central  Pa- 
cific-Southern Pacific  system  would,  therefore,  be  ca- 
lamitous to  us.  not  only  with  reference  to  the  present 
acreage  but  to  thousands  of  acres  which  will  come  into 
hearing  within  the  next  three  years.  We  have  had  a 
hard  fight  for  the  very  life  of  this  industry  and  wc 
-Ix.uld  face  with  dismay  the  prospect  at  this  time  of 
further  hardship  through  increased  rates  and  inferior 
ice  which,  in  our  judgment,  might  result  from  two 
competing  systems  operating  alternating  short  strips  of 
trackage  all  over  this  State    —T.  C.  Tucker.  Manager 

California  Walnut  Growers'  Association,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.  —"On  cars  shipped  from  our  various  packing 
houses  located  along  the  coast  lines  of  the  Southern 
Pacific,  shipments  would  be  delayed  waiting  for  cars  to 


be  furnished  by  the  Central  Pacific  (as  they  would  get 
the  long  haul  the  Southern  Pacific  naturally  would  ex- 
pect the  Central  Pacific  to  furnish  the  cars).  At  pres- 
ent the  Southern  Pacific  furnish  them  and  there  is  no 
delay.  To  avoid  this  delay  we  would  have  to  ship  via 
the  Southern  routes,  which  would  be  considerably 
longer  to  Northeastern  points,  and  which  would  also 
mean  delay. 

"In  regard  to  the  packing  houses  now  located  on  the 
Central  Pacific  we  would  have  to  go  to  the  expense  and 
trouble  of  filing  bonds  to  cover  freight  charges  and,  no 
doubt,  considerable  wire  expense  during  the  shipping 
ton  keeping  in  touch  with  the  Central  Pacific  on  our 
cars,  which  we  now  can  handle  by  telephone  direct  with 
the  Southern  Pacific  offices  here.  — Jas.  P.  Curry,  Traf- 
fic Manager. 

OIL 

Union  Oil  Company  of  California,  Los  Angeles,  CaL— 
"It  is  our  opinion  that  the  disruption  of  this  system  will 
be  very  detrimental  to  the  economical  and  efficient 
transportation  of  freight  by  railroad  in  the  State,  and 
we  arc.  therefore,  opposed  to  the  same." — W.  I..  Stew- 
art, President. 

General  Petroleum  Corporation,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"The  General  Petroleum  Corporation  is  unalterably  op- 
posed to  the  separation  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and 
the  Central  Pacific  .Systems,  for  the  following  rea- 

"1.  We  believe  that  our  service  to  our  customers  will 
be  seriously  impaired  by  the  necessity  of  handling  a 
large  number  of  our  shipments  over  two  systems,  with 
the  accompanying  difficulties  ot  using  joint  rates  and 
dealing  with  two  lines,  instead  of  one. 

"2.    Wc  feel  that  the  expense  of  distributing  our  prod- 
ucts will  be  increased,  due  to  the  necessarily  greatn 
pensc    involved    in   operating    two    separate   systems,    in 
place  of  one. 

"3.  We  feel  that  a  separation  of  the  two  system- 
would  increase  our  difficulties  in  handling  our  business 
with  our  present  tank  car  facilities,  and  consider  h 
trrmely  probable  that  we  would  be  required  to  make  an 
additional  investment  in  tank  cars,  or  else  would  sub- 
ject our  customers  to  delays  and  irregularities  in  the 
receipt  of  shipments. 

"4.    We  feel  that  in  some  cases,  such  as  the  Owcm> 
branch,  between   Mojave  and    Ma/en.   the  frequency   of 
service  would  be  reduced,  as  it  is  practically  impossible 
for  this  line  to  support  it-elf  without  a  material  inn 
in  rates. 

"5.  We  believe  that  there  is  no  public  demand  for 
the  separation  of  the-e  two  systems,  and  thaf  on  the 
contrary,  a  large  majority  of  the  shippers  and  trav 
are  confident  that  their  interests  would  be  best  served 
by  unified  control  and  operation."— John  Bsrneson, 
President. 

Associated  Oil  Co..  San  Francisco,  CaL— "The  great- 
est umc  of  the  facilities  of  these  companies  can  undoubt- 
edly be  obtained  by  the  public  through  their  mainte- 
nance as  one  system.  The  car  supply  is  thus  given  the 
greatest  mobility.  The  shops,  terminals,  division  round 
houses,  repair  shop-  and  the  like  and  all  other  facilities 
have  been  built  to  serve  the  one  lyttem  and  can  be 
utilized  to  fullest  advantage  only  by  the  maintenance 
of  that  system.  Dislocation  of  operation  with  respect 
to  these  facilities  will  follow  separation,  making  them 
of  far  less  utility  and  also  unquestionably  causing  tip- 
removal  of  thousands  of  men  with  their  families  from 
their  present  homes."— J.  P.  Edwards,  Assistant  Sec- 
retary 

PASSENGER  TRAFFIC 

Ellison-White  Lyceum  4  Chautauqua  Association. 
Portland.  Ore — "This  association  spends  annually  Some 
$225,000  for  passenger  transportation  and  for  the  handl- 
ing of  our  special  baggage  cars.  The  roads  receiving 
the  bulk  of  our  patronage  are  the  Southern  Pacific  all 
the  way  from  N'ew  Orleans  to  Portland,  the  Union  Pa- 
cific and  the  Northern  Pacific.     Our  experience  is  that. 


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although  under  one  ownership,  the  Southern  Pacific  is 
the  most  efficient  and  dependable  of  the  three  roads 
named,  and  nothing  that  we  can  recall  today  has  ever 
happened  to  suggest  a  disposition  on  the  part  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  to  take  advantage  of  its  monopoly." — 
Walter  E.  Stern. 

PUBLIC  SERVICE  COMMISSION 

Railroad  Commission  of  the  State  of  California. — 
"Upon  adjournment  of  the  conference,  the  following 
telegram  was  sent  to  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com- 
mission: 

"  'The  Arizona  Corporation  Commission,  repre- 
sented by  D.  F.  Johnson,  chairman,  the  State  Cor- 
poration Commission  of  New  Mexico,  by  authoriza- 
tion sent  by  wire,  and  the  Railroad  Commission  of 
the  State  of  California  request  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission  to  consider  as  early  as  possible 
the  railroad  situation  in  the  so-called  transconti- 
nental Western  Region  as  part  of  the  consolida- 
tion proceeding  in  Docket  No.  12964  and  to  give 
precedence  to  hearings  affecting  this  territory  over 
hearings  now  set  in  that  docket  for  the  so-called 
Southeastern  Region.' 

"The  California  Railroad  Commission  hopes  that  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission  will  accede  to  the  re- 
quest expressed  in  the  telegram  and  that  the  railroad 
consolidation  hearings  for  the  Pacific  Coast  States  will 
be  held  at  an  early  date  in  order  that  the  harmful  un- 
certainty may  be  removed  and  the  much  needed  trans- 
portation development  of  California  and  the  other 
Western  States  continue  uninterruptedly  and  progres- 
sively. At  those  hearings  this  commission  intends  to 
urge  upon  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  such 
groupings  and  such  consolidation  of  the  railroads  as 
will  best  serve  the  ever-growing  transportation  needs 
of  the  entire  State  of  California." 

PUBLIC  UTILITIES 

Western  States  Gas  &  Electric  Co.,  Stockton,  Cal. — 

"Replying  to  your  communication  of  July  5,  I  wish  to 
advise  that  in  our  opinion  the  disruption  of  the  South- 
ern Pacific-Central  Pacific  System  is  detrimental  to  the 
best  interests  of  this  section  of  California,  and  to  our 
company  particularly  as  a  shipper,  for  the  reason  that 
there  will  be  delays  and  inconveniences  occasioned  if 
this  one  physical  property  is  compelled  to  act  as  two 
independent  properties." — Samuel  Kahn,  Vice-President 
and  General  Manager. 

RETAIL  SHIPPERS 

W.  Frank  Miller  &  Co.,  Butte  City,  Cal.— "We  desire 
to  state  that  we  are  heartily  in  sympathy  with  the  plan 
to  continue  to  operate  the  two  roads  under  the  one 
management  either  through  lease  or  other  lawful  ar- 
rangement, and  we  believe  with  you  that  the  disruption 
of  same  will  lead  to  great  traffic  confusion  that  will 
eventually  work  itself  out  to  the  detriment  of  the  ship- 
pers on  this  coast,  and  we  therefore  wish  to  enter  our 
protest  as  a  shipper  and  receiver  of  freights  against  the 
divorce  of  these  two  railroads." — J.  James. 

Fabian  Grunauer  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "While  a 
dismembeiment  may  be  practical  in  interstate  com- 
merce, it  will  make  a  veritable  babel  of  intrastate  trade. 
It  will  make  all  kinds  of  mistakes  more  probable  and 
delayed  shipments  inevitable.  By  creating  a  divided 
responsibility  it  is  detrimental  to  the  shipper  in  a  thou- 
sand ways." — L.   Fabian. 

Baker  &  Co.,  Inc.,  Modesto,  Cal. — "It  appears  to  us 
that  we  have  enough  railroad  troubles  at  the  present 
time  without  further  attempting  to  tear  down  the  pres- 
ent efficient  service." — -Leslie  F.  Baker. 

S.  C.  Dunlap,  Hay  and  Grain  Merchants,  Los  Angeles, 
Cal. — "This  channel  of  trade  has  been  open  for  years, 
and  to  make  any  change  in  it  whatsoever  will  injure 
the  commercial  man  that  has  built  his  plan  under  the 
old    regime,    and    would    be    somewhat    equivalent    to 


changing  the  channel  of  the  Mississippi  River  and 
cause  it  to  flow  through  Alabama." — S.  C.  Dunlap. 

Lathrop  Hay  Co.,  Hollister,  Cal. — "The  whole  trend 
of  opinion  is  that  the  injustice  should  be  corrected,  and 
the  will  of  the  people  should  prevail.  We  commend 
your  action  in  the  matter  and  are  in  hearty  accord." — 
R.  P.  Lathrop,  President;  C.  A.  Gardner,  Manager. 

Hale  Bros.,  Inc.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "With  the  dis- 
memberment and  independent  operation,  the  cost  of 
establishing  many  junction  points,  the  duplication  of 
shops,  the  disruption  of  its  present  efficient  operation, 
and  the  inability  of  either  company  to  render  first  class 
service  for  years,  will  surely  increase  traffic  rates  and 
bring  about  complications  that  are  bound  to  work  a 
hardship  on  the  producers,  shippers  and  people  of  the 
State. 

"That  it  will  be  far-reaching  and  very  destructive, 
there  is  no  doubt;  and  it  will  take  years  and  years,  and 
millions  and  millions  of  dollars  to  restore  what  has 
been  destroyed  by  the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States. 

"In  all  fairness,  in  all  justice,  in  all  equity,  the  un- 
merger  should  not  go  through.  The  highest  good  to  the 
people  of  the  State  will  be  served  in  allowing  the  South- 
ern Pacific  to  work  with  the  Central  Pacific  as  one  com- 
pany."— P.  C.  Hale. 

Hochheimer  &  Co.,  Bakersfield,  Cal. — "The  proposed 
dismemberment  would  be  fatal  to  the  entire  business  in- 
terests of  California,  since  shipments  would  have  to  be 
routed  over  two  railroads,  thus  increasing  freight  costs 
and  causing  inconvenient  delays." — L.  Scheeline,  Treas- 
urer. 

H.  C.  Capwell  Co.,  Oakland,  Cal.— "The  dissolution 
of  the  present  system  would  no  doubt  result  in  years 
of  inefficient  service,  during  a  long  period  of  readjust- 
ment to  new  conditions,  the  waste  of  huge  sums  of 
money  in  uselessly  changing  the  locations  of  division 
points  and  repair  facilities,  building  new  rolling  stock 
and  equipment  and  all  to  no  advantage,  as  either  a  new 
joint  operating  arrangement  would  have  to  be  made  by 
the  roads  involved  or  poorer  service  and  higher  rates 
would  result  from  separate  management." — J.  C.  Burt, 
Manager  Traffic  Dept. 

Samuel  E.  Rees,  Hay,  Grain,  Wood  and  Coal  Dealer, 
Coalinga,  Cal. — "I  ship  quite  a  lot  of  hay  from  Nevada, 
coal  from  Utah,  and  corn  from  Nebraska,  and  know  that 
it  would  ruin  our  rates  to  have  the  separation." 

Chas.  Asher  Department  Store,  Tehachapi,  Cal. — 
"We  do  not  wish  to  be  put  to  the  inconvenience  of  addi- 
tional local  freight  rates  and  additional  expense  which 
would  be  necessary  to  erect  additional  terminals  and 
from  which  expenditure  we  would  gain  nothing." — 
Chas.  Asher. 

Weill's  Department  Store,  Bakersfield,  Cal.— "The 
proposed  dismemberment  would  be  a  detriment  to  my 
business,  as  shipments  would  have  to  be  routed  over 
two  railroads,  thus  increasing  freight  costs  and  caus- 
ing delays." — A.  Weill. 

The  Emporium,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "As  one  of  the 
largest  shippers  in  a  retail  way  (if  not  the  largest)  in 
San  Francisco,  we  desire  to  protest  to  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce  against  the  proposed  dismemberment  of  the 
Southern  Pacific  Railway  System,  and  we  would  ask 
that  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  use  as  vigorous  action 
as  is  compatible  with  its  forms  of  procedure  to  combat 
this  dismemberment. 

"About  one-half  of  the  merchandise  we  receive  which 
comes  by  rail  (and  we  are  doing  a  volume  of  business 
of  upwards  of  fifteen  million  dollars  a  year)  comes  by 
the  Southern  Pacific  Lines.  Our  experience  is  that  for 
the  long  haul  involved,  the  routing  and  details  of  these 
shipments  are  a  difficult  task,  hard  enough  with  one 
organization  such  as  the  Southern  Pacific,  as  now  con- 
stituted, rather  than  changing  it  and  making  us  deal 
with  two  lines  or  maybe  more. 

"Our  experience  with  the  Southern  Pacific  is  that 
they  have  consistently  during  the  past  fifteen  years  bet- 


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tered  conditions  for  the  retail  shipper,  and  had  it  not 
been  for  the  advent  of  the  war,  we  feel  confident  that 
conditions  would  have  been  at  present  very  much  im- 
proved over  what  they  are  and  have  been. 

"We  have  found  the  Southern  Pacific  easy  to  deal 
with,  and  the  mere  fact  that  the  president  of  the  railway 
and  all  of  the  operating  officials  are  located  right  here 
in  San  Francisco  is  of  inestimable  benefit  to  shippers 
such  as  ourselves,  as  well  as  to  the  entire  Coast. 

"The  efficiency  with  which  the  Southern  Pacific  has 
handled  claims  and  tangled  shipments  is  commendable 
and  this  makes  for  a  lessened  cost  of  retail  dry  goods  to 
the  consumer.  We  feel  that  any  change  from  the  pres- 
ent status  will  be  one  distinctly  unfavorable  to  us  and 
therefore  to  the  consumer,  and  it  possibly  might  be  re- 
flected in  the  price  of  merchandise  to  the  consumer." — 
B.  F.  Schlesingcr.  General  Manager. 

RICE  MILLS 

C.  E.  Grosjean  Rice  Milling  Co..  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"It  ha-  seemed  to  us  that  it  would  be  a  calamity  to 
have  this  carried  out.  and  hope  some  way  may  be  found 
by  which  the  companies  can  be  operated  as  a  unit 
within  the  law. — C.  E.  Grosjean,  President. 

SHIPBUILDERS 

Moore  Shipbuilding  Co..  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "The 
Pacific  Coast  manufacturers,  particularly  the  shipbuild- 
ing interests,  are  badly  handicapped  at  the  present  time 
on  accpunt  nf  the  necessity  of  bringing  from  the  East 
all  steel  entering  ship  construction,  and  with  the  freight 
rates  and  inconveniences  generally  increased  as  they 
would  be  by  the  proposed  dissolution,  shipbuilding  and 
larger  manufacturing  concerns  would  automatically  go 
out  of  business  as  Tar  as  new  construction  was  con- 
cerned. It  may  be  urged  that  the  Southern  Pacific  with 
its  Sunset  Route,  and  also  operating  the  Central  Pa- 
cific, eliminates  competition.  When  it  is  considered  that 
this  State  is  served  by  two  other  trans-continental  lines, 
the  Western  Pacific  and  Santa  Fe,  it  is  obvious  that 
such  an  argument  is  not  sound." — J.  A.  Moore.  Pres- 
ident 

SUGAR 

Holly  Sugar  Corporation.  Huntington  Beach,  Cal. — 
"We  think  it  would  be  detrimental  to  the  interests  of 
Pacific  Coast  shippers  to  have  the  Central  Pacific  con- 
trolled by  a  line  that  also  controls  direct  routes  from 
Ogden  into  the  Northwest  and  into  Southern  Califor- 
nia."— C.  A.  Johnson,  Manager. 

California  ft  Hawaiian  Sugar  Refining  Corporation. 
San  Francisco,  CaL — "Our  refinery  is  located  on  the 
main  line  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Co.  at  Crockett,  Cal. 
We  fear  greatly  that  with  the  unmerger  of  these  two 
lines  the  matter  of  car  distribution  will  be  much  more 
complicated  and  cause  us  more  or  less  trouble  contin- 
ually, as  we  feel  sure  that  the  Southern  Pacific  is  not 
going  to  furnish  us  with  class  A  equipment  for  sugar 
moving  to  points  on  the  Central  Pacific.  In  other 
words,  it  appears  to  us  that  it  will  be  necessary  for  us 
to  keep  a  supply  of  cars  belonging  to  both  lines  at 
Crockett  continually  in  order  to  take  care  of  our  busi- 
ness."— George  M.  Rolph,  General  Manager. 

Union  Sugar  Co.,  San  Francisco,  CaL — "The  disrupt- 
ing of  these  roads  would  not  alone  be  productive  of 
operating  confusion,  but  entail  useless  economic  waste 
and  such  increased  cost  of  operation  that  an  increase 
in  rates  would  be  forced  upon  the  people  in  place  of 
the  decrease  that  is  now  being  sought  in  order  to 
assist  in  bringing  business  hack  to  normal  conditions" 
— D.  S.  Murray,  Traffic  Manager. 

Anaheim  Sugar  Co.,  Anaheim,  Cal. — "As  large  ship- 
pers_  on  this  system  we  feel  that,  if  this  dissolution  is 
carried  out  it  will  mean  irreparable  calamity  not  only 
for  us  but  also  for  the  community  served  by  this  sys- 
tem of  railways." — D.  Jessman.  Superintendent. 

Spreckels  Sugar  Co..  San  Francisco.  CaL — "We  are 
opposed  to  this  for  the  following  reasons,  and  wish  to 


do  everything  in  our  power  to  maintain  the  roads  as 
they  now  are: 

"First  Separation  of  the  two  lines  would  mean  a 
heavy  increase  in  operating  and  overhead  expenses  for 
the  two  roads,  which  must  necessarily  be  reflected  in 
at  least  preventing  further  reduction  of  freight  rates. 

"Second.  Freight  being  interchanged  between  the 
two  lines  is  bound  to  be  subject  to  unnecessary  delay. 

"Third.  The  general  offices  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
are  located  here  in  San  Francisco,  we  are  acquainted 
with  their  traffic  officers,  and  they  to  a  very  great  ex- 
tent understand  our  problems.  They  are  always  willing 
.  to  co-operate  with  us,  and  we  feel  that  any  requests  we 
make  them  will  receive  their  due  consideration.  On 
the  other  hand,  we  do  not  know  the  traffic  officers  of 
the  Union  Pacific,  which  company  more  than  likely  will 
assume  at  least  operating  control  of  the  Central  Pa- 
cific, their  general  offices  are  located  in  Omaha,  and 
their  officers  are  foreign  to  us  as  far  as  our  local  prob- 
lems are  concerned. 

"Fourth.  The  Southern  Pacific  has  operated  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  for  so  many  years  that  to  make  any  change 
now  would  certainly  disrupt  business.  There  is  no  need 
of  pointing  out  here  the  many  chaotic  conditions  that 
would  result  on  account  of  the  Central  Pacific  owning 
certain  main  line  branches  and  most  feeders  and  indus- 
trial tracks  belonging  to  the  Southern  Pacific,  and  vice 
versa. 

"Fifth.  In  writing  this  protest,  we  will  admit  we  have 
our  own  selfish  interests  at  heart,  but  at  the  same  time 
feel  that  what  is  true  with  us  is  very  largely  true  of 
every  large  industrial  enterprise  served  by  these  lines. 

"We  object  strenuously  to  the  separation  of  these 
roads." — W.  H.  Ilannam,  Secretary. 

Alameda  Sugar  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "The  in- 
creased cost  of  operation  that  would  result  must  nec- 
essarily be  borne  by  the  public  and  could  be  nothing  but 
disastrous  to  the  people  of  the  Pacific  Coast." — D.  S. 
Murray,  Traffic  Manager. 

TOBACCO 

Associated  Tobacco  Growers,  Inc..  of  California,  San 
Francisco,  Cal. — "I  would  be  greatly  obliged  if  you 
would  place  on  record  the  opinion  of  the  Associated  To- 
bacco Growers,  Inc.,  that  the  dismemberment  of  the 
Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  System  at  this  time 
would  be  disastrous  to  the  shippers  of  the  State. 

"This  association  represents  a  comparatively  new  in- 
dustry in  California,  but  one  which,  in  my  opinion,  is 
destined  to  grow  very  rapidly,  and  I,  therefore,  feel 
that  it  should  go  on  record  as  protesting  against  any 
measure  calculated  to  injure  the  shipping  interests  of 
the  territory  served  by  our  great  unilied  transportation 
system." — Alfred  Aram,  President. 

The  John  Bollman  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "In  our 
opinion. .if  the  Southern  Pacific  and  the  Central  Pacific 
Railway  Systems  are  separated,  irreparable  damage  will 
result  to  this  community  and  the  entire  West.  We  are 
among  the  largest  manufacturers  and  shippers  in  the 
West,  and  in  behalf  of  our  business  we  protest  against 
any  such  action." — G.  W.  Whitaker. 

The  American  Tobacco  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — 
"The  present  situation  whereby  these  two  railroads  are 
operated  under  one  management  adds  greatly  to  the 
convenience  of  shippers  from  San  Francisco.  We  would 
be  greatly  inconvenienced  by  any  disruption  of  the 
present  consolidation. 

"The  service  under  the  present  management  is  most 
satisfactory  to  us  and  we  wish  to  make  a  protest  against 
any  change  in  the  situation." — T.  W.  Harris,  President. 

VEGETABLE  SHIPPERS 

California  Vegetable  Union,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — "The 
proposed  separation  would  inevitably  result  in  great 
confusion  to  our  industries,  as  well  as  to  the  carriers, 
and  in  addition  would  prove  very  expensive,  without,  it 
would  seem,  any  attendant  actual  benefits." — Thos. 
O'Neill,  President. 


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VINEYARDIST 

Beaulieu  Vineyard,  San  Francisco,  Cal.  (Letter  to  In- 
terstate Commerce  Commission). — "The  service  ren- 
dered us  by  these  railroads  in  their  present  manner  of 
operation  is  very  good,  and  we  are  greatly  afraid  that 
in  the  event  of  such  a  dissolution  as  has  been  ordered, 
our  business  will  be  greatly  disrupted  without  any  re- 
curring benefit  either  to  the  Government  or  to  our- 
selves."— Georges  De  Latour,  President. 

Lodi  Growers  and  Shippers'  League,  Lodi,  Cal. — "A 
careful  study  of  the  facts  leads  us  to  believe  that  such 
action  would  be  detrimental  to  the  fruit  industry  locally, 
which  approximates  more  than  25  per  cent  of  the  de- 
ciduous fruit  shipments  of  the  State  of  California,  due 
to  impaired  service  in  handling  a  highly  perishable  com- 
modity; therefore,  be  it 

"Resolved,  that  the  Lodi  Growers  and  Shippers' 
League  in  meeting  assembled  this  date,  hereby  appeals 
to  the  attorney  general  of  the  United  States  and  the 
chairman  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to 
find  a  lawful  method  of  joint  operation  for  these  lines." 
— L.  B.  Bailey,  Secretary. 

San  Joaquin  County  Table  Grape  Growers'  Associa- 
tion, Inc.,  Lodi,  Cal.  (Member  of  Statewide  Committee). 
— "Further,  as  a  matter,  not  of  law.  but  of  equity,  I 
believe  it  would  not  be  fair  or  just  to,  after  allowing 
the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific  to  work  to- 
gether for  so  many  years  to  then  sever  them,  without 
in  some  manner  taking  care  of  the  short  feeder  lines 
built  by  the  Southern  Pacific  and  which  would  be  of  but 
little  value  except  to  those  controlling  the  Central  Pa- 
cific."— George  W.  Ashley. 

WHOLESALERS 

M.  A.  Newmark  &   Co..   Los  Angeles,  Cal. — "If  the 

Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  question  affected  only 
San  Francisco,  we  would  be  very  glad  to  do  anything 
in  our  power  to  help  our  Northern  sister  in  her  fight. 
The  fact  that  the  Southern  part  of  the  State  is  also  in- 
volved, adds  to  the   inspiration." — Marco  R.  Newmark. 

Walton  N.  Moore  Dry  Goods  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 
— "It  is  our  conviction  that  to  separate  the  properties 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific  Railroads 
would  be  a  serious  menace  to  the  welfare  of  California 
and  other  Pacific  Coast  States  which  they  now  serve." 
— Walton  N.  Moore,  President. 

Zellerbach  Paper  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "It  is  our 
firm  conviction  that  no  adequate  good  can  result  to  the 
commercial  interest  of  this  State  by  the  dismemberment 
of  the  two  systems,  and  if  it  is  actually  accomplished,  a 
very  serious  decrease  in  efficiency  and  good  service  will 
almost  certainly  follow." — Isadore  Zellerbach,  Presi- 
dent. 

Geo.  W.  Caswell  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal. — "If  this 
unit  were  split  it  would  necessitate  two  executive  or- 
ganizations where  only  one  is  now  necessary.  Shippers 
would  be  put  to  needless  annoyance  on  account  of  deal- 
ing with  more  than  one  company  and  would  undoubt- 
edly result  in  the  slowing  up  of  freight  service.  Public 
travel  would  likewise  be  inconvenienced  on  account  of 
transactions  with  more  than  one  road,  where  at  the 
present  time  one  transaction  will  complete  the  arrange- 
ment."— Geo.  W.  Caswell,  President. 

M.  J.  Brandenstein  &  Co.,  San  Francisco,  Cal.— "We 
believe  this  dismemberment  would  be  uneconomic  and 
only  work  to  the  detriment  of  the  business  district  of 
San  Francisco." — M.  J.  Brandenstein,  President. 

Western  Wholesale  Drug  Co..  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — 
"I  believe  that  the  disruption  of  the  Southern  Pacific 
System  would  be  very  detrimental  not  only  to  the  inter- 
ests of  San  Francisco  and  the  North  but  to  the  whole 
State  of  California,  and  I  feel  sure  that  the  interests 
of  Southern  California  are  ready  to  back  your  commit- 
tee up  in  the  strongest  possible  manner  to  protect  our 
mutual  interests." — L.  D.  Sale,  President. 


Robbins-Hebberd  Co.,  Colton,  Cal.— "We  have  noted 
where  the  Court  has  ordered  the  dissolution  of  these 
two  systems,  and  while  we  are  not  familiar  with  the 
history  of  the  operation  of  these  two  systems,  we  can- 
not see  where  the  dissolution  would  be  of  any  benefit 
to  any  one." — T.  F.  Robbins,  President. 

Stetson-Barret  Co.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. — "We,  too,  be- 
lieve this  to  be  a  calamity  to  the  whole  Pacific  Coast." — 
A.  B.  Barret,  President. 

Wholesale  Boot  &  Shoe  Association  of  California,  San 
Francisco,  Cal.— "Resolved,  that  the  Wholesale  Boot  & 
Shoe  Association  of  California  urges  that  all  legitimate 
means  should  be  employed  to  prevent  separate  man- 
agement and  operation  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and 
Central  Pacific  Railroads;  and  that  public  interests  de- 
mands that  the  present  status  of  operation  and  man- 
agement of  these  two  railroads  shall  remain  undis- 
turbed."— Ben  Armer,  Secretary. 

ARIZONA 

AGRICULTURE 

S.  F.  Stanley.  Hay,  Grain  and  Field  Seeds,  Yuma, 
Ariz. — "I  do  most  emphatically  protest  against  the 
forced  separation  of  the  two  systems,  as  it  would  al- 
most mean  ruin  to  this  part  of  the  country." 

Burge-Doyle  Livestock  Co.,  Litchton,  Ariz.— *'I  feel 
that  the  dismemberment  of  the  Central  Pacific-Southern 
Pacific  would  result  in  a  tremendous  hardship,  incon- 
venience and  financial  loss  to  shippers,  more  especially 
the  ones  operating  on  the  lines  affected,  but  indirectly 
by  all  of  us.  I  am  fearful  of  any  law  which  will  dis- 
rupt such  a  wonderful  organization  which  it  took  so 
many  years  to  build  up  and  which  is  such  an  important 
artery  of  commerce. 

"I  have  the  utmost  respect  for  our  court  decisions, 
but  I  do  hope  that  this  matter  at  this  particular  time  of 
reconstruction  can  be  settled  in  a  way  that  will  pro- 
mote rather  than  discourage  industry." — T.  F.  Doyle, 
General  Manager. 

Johnson  &  Cook,  Dealers  in  Cattle,  Willcox,  Ariz. — 
"During  the  12-month  period  we  ship  over  these  lines 
to  California  markets  between  twenty  and  thirty  thou- 
sand head  of  cattle  of  various  classes,  and  anything 
done  to  obstruct  and  delay  traffic  will  have  a  serious  ef- 
fect upon  our  business." 

HARDWARE 

W.  J.  Corbett  Hardware  Co.,  Tucson,  Ariz. — "Wo  be- 
lieve as  you  do  that  dismemberment  is  a  calamity  not 
only  to  San  Francisco,  but  to  Southern  Arizona  as  well 
We  depend  a  good  deal  on  the  Southern  Pacific  in 
Arizona  and  feel  very  friendly  towards  them." — H.  S. 
Corbett.   President  and   General   Manager. 

LUMBER 

The  O'Malley  Lumber  Co.,  Tucson,  Ariz. — "We  be- 
lieve that  an  irreparable  injustice  would  be  done  to 
both  the  Southern  Pacific  and  the  Central  Pacific  Rail- 
roads by  the  divorcing  of  these  two  systems. 

"We  also  feel  that  the  great  Southwest,  which  has 
been  built  up  by  the  assistance  of  these  two  roads. 
would  suffer  a  great  calamity  if  this  decision  were  put 
into  effect:  on  the  other  hand,  from  our  limited  knowl- 
edge of  the  situation,  we  cannot  see  that  any  good 
would  be  accomplished  by  this  dissolution." — E.  L. 
O'Malley,  Vice-President. 

Kelvin  Lumber  &  Supply  Co.,  Winkelman,  Ariz. — 
"We  feel  that  the  breaking  up  of  the  present  system  into 
two  systems  would  be  disastrous  to  the  economical  op- 
eration of  these  transportation  facilities." — F.  M.  Pool, 
President  and  General  Manager. 


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MINES 

Miami  Copper  Co.,  Miami,  Ariz. — "We  are  strongly 
opposed  to  such  disruption  and  that  it  is  universally 
opposed  in  Arizona  and  the  people  here  are  thoroughly 
alive  to  the  situation  is  proven  by  the  action  already 
taken  through  various  organizations,  such  as  the  Ari- 
zona Industrial  Congress  and  Chambers  of  Commerce, 
who  have  passed  resolutions  in  opposition  to  the  pro- 
posed disruption  and  have  forwarded  copies  of  same  to 
the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission." — F.  \V.  Maclen- 
nan.  General  Manager. 

Central  Copper  Co.  of  Arizona,  Dos  Cabezas,  Aria. — 
"We  think  that  the  dismemberment  of  these  companies 
would  be  a  calamity  to  the  shipping  public  in  this  sec- 
tion."— John  W.  Prout.  Jr.,  General  Manager. 

Iron  Cap  Copper  Co.,  Copper  Hill,  Ariz. — "A  large 
portion  of  our  heavy  supply  tonnage  originates  within 
the  territory  covered  by  the  Southern  and  Central  Pa- 
cific, and  the  segregation  of  it  cannot  help  in  any  way 
but  is  bound  to  result  in  increased  transportation  ex- 
pense and  serious  delays.  We  hope  that  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  will  find  some  way  to  handle 
the  situation  without  adding  increased  burdens  to  the 
shipper." — F.  A.  Woodward,  General  Manager. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

Norton-Morgan  Commercial  Co.,  Willcox,  Ariz. — "I 
wish  to  say  that  it  will  not  be  necessary  to  send  a  rep- 
resentative to  confer  with  us.  as  we  are  already  alert 
to  the  peril  which  threatens  the  public  and  shipping  in- 
terests, and  we  stand  ready  to  assist  you  in  any  way 
ilble." — H.  A.  Morgan,  President. 

Mexico  Arizona  Trading  Co.,  Nogales,  Ariz— "This 
company  ships  large  quanities  of  lumber  and  box 
-hooks  and  other  products  into  Mexico,  and  is  the 
largest  shipper  of  tomatoes  from  the  West  Coast  of 
Mexico.  We  use  the  Pacific  Coast  and  Northwest  mar- 
kets, and  as  far  east  as  Butte.  Mont.,  for  very  heavy 
shipments,  and  we  are  unalterably  opposed  to  any  sep- 
aration of  the  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  System, 
as  directly  against  our  interests  as  shippers,  preferring 
to  deal  with  one  road  in  every  way  where  it  is  possible 
in  making  our  shipments." — A.  G.  Stearns,  Manager. 

McCall  Cotton  ft  Oil  Co..  Phoenix.  Aril— "The  local 
Chamber  of  Commerce  and  the  Arizona  Industrial  Con- 
gress, of  which  we  arc  members,  have  expressed  our 
views  in  reference  to  the  separation  of  these  two  roads. 

"We  are  rather  large  shippers  from  this  territory. 
and  we  feel  that  the  separation  of  these  roads  would 
be  a  material  injury  to  us  as  well  as  to  Arizona,  and 
we  trust  you  will  be  able  to  prevent  what  we  would  con- 
sider an  irreparable  calamity  by  having  these  two  roads 
ated  as  one  unit  " — E   A.  McDonald.  Vice-President. 

Charles   Korrick  ft  Brother.   Dry  Goods.  Wholesale 

and  Retail.  Phoenix.  Ariz.— "We  are  very  glad  indeed  to 

do  anything  in  our  power  to  assist  you  in  filing  protest 

and  requesting  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to 

.i  lawful  means  of  operating  the  Central  Pacific  and 

thern  Pacific  as  a  unit." — Chas.  Korrick. 

The  Couley  Burcham  Co.,  Merchandise  Brokers.  Tuc- 
son. Ariz. — "It  is  our  firm  belief  that  the  public  and  the 
-hipping  interest  will  be  seriously  hurt  if  such  'dissolu- 
tion takes  place  We  ship  a  great  many  cars  from 
your  section  during  the  year  and  want  to  go  on  record 
as  favoring  a  continuation  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and 
Central  Pacific  System  as  a  unit." 

PUBLIC  SERVICE  COMMISSIONS 

Arizona   Corporation    Commission,   Phoenix,   Ariz. 

"We  are  sure  that  the  position  of  the  Arizona  Cor: 
ation  Commission,  as  set  forth  in  the  conference  held 
with  the  Railroad  Commission  of  California,  is  well 
known  to  you.  We  offer  our  co-operation  in  any  rea- 
sonable effort  that  may  be  made  to  prevent  the  calamity 
that  would  result  in  the  dismemberment  of  these  two 
lines." — D.   F.  Johnson.   Chairman. 


OREGON 

BANKS 

The  First  National  Bank  of  North  Bend,  Ore.- "We 
hereby  voice  our  protest  against  the  dismemberment  of 
the  two  systems — rather  the  Southern  Pacific-Central 
Pacific   System." — John  H.  Greves,  Cashier. 

The  Citizens  Bank  of  Ashland,  Ore.— "We  trust  that 
a  way  can  be  found  to  permit  the  two  systems  to  op- 
erate as  a  unit,  as  we  believe  any  other  course  would 
have  a  disastrous  effect  on  the  Pacific  Coast  country, 
and  on  this  community  in  particular." — V.  O.  N.  Smith, 
Cashier. 

FRUIT  GROWERS  AND  SHIPPERS 

Willamette  Valley  Prune  Association,  Salem.  Ore. 

"This  seems  to  be  a  manifestly  unjust  ruling  under  the 
present  conditions  and  the  present  transportation  laws 
so  far  as  the  companies  arc  concerned,  and  it  certainly 
would  be  decidedly  disadvantageous  to  the  country 
served  by  the  Southern  Pacific." 

LUMBER 

Lamm  Lumber  Co..  Modoc  Point.  Ore.— "The  un- 
merger  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central  Pacific  if 
completed  will  no  doubt  result  in  poorer  service  to 
the  public  and  especially  to  the  West  Coast,  and  I  think 
it  should  be  avoided  if  possible." — W.  E.  Lamm. 

Modoc  Lumber  Co..  Aspgrove,  Ore.— "It  is  quite  ob- 
vious that  anything  that  affects  one  of  the  major  mar- 
kets for  our  product  will  in  turn  affect  our  local  and  in- 
dividual operations  in  relative  degree.  Careful  estimates 
indicate  that  the  consumption  of  boxes  bv  California 
industries  is  from  450  to  500  million  feet  tier  year — or 
in  more  easily  understood  terms,  from  23,500  carloads 
to  25,000  carloads,  the  major  portion  of  which  is  pro- 
duced by  the  mills  of  the  California-Oregon  pine  belt, 
and  which  in  turn  represent  approximately  45  per  cent 
of  their  entire  production  of  lumber. 

"It  would  seem  evident  that  any  disruption  of  the 
present  complete  yet  complex  system  of  freight  collec- 
tion and  consolidation  in  the  territory  involved,  would 
only  result  in  great  confusion  with  its  consequent  effects 
on  the  service  to  the  public.  The  annual  car  shortages 
that  the  lumber  industry  of  the  West  suffers  so  severely 
from  at  times  is  to  be  anticipated  in  greater  degree  where 
smaller  transportation  systems  prevail  and  I  am  confi- 
dent that  one  of  the  greatest  problems  confronting  the 
railroads  of  the  West  in  the  near  future  will  be  in  pro- 
viding equipment  to  meet  the  rapidly  shifting  produc- 
tion of  lumber  from  the  Southern  States  with  their 
comparatively  short  haul,  to  the  West  with  its  far 
longer  haul  and  greater  operating  difficulties  It  would 
appear  that  none  but  the  largest  and  strongest  trans- 
portation svstems  will  he  able  to  meet  this  coming  crisis 
in  any  satisfactory  degree."— J.  O.  Goldthwaite.  Pres- 
ident. 

The  Whitney  Co.,  Idaville.  Ore.— "You  may  put  into 
the  strongest  kind  of  language  at  your  command  that 
this  company,  whose  operations  arc  on  the  Tillamook 
branch  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Lines,  is  unqualifiedly, 
unreservedly  and  indignantly  opposed  to  the  disruption 
of  the  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  System;  that 
such  an  act  can  in  no  way  help  and  aid  concerns  like 
our  own  with  several  millions  of  dollars  of  operative 
and  raw  material  investments,  but  will  do  great  and  ir- 
reparable damage  to  us  and  others."— Russell  Hawkins. 
President 

Pelican  Bay  Lumber  Co.,  Klamath  Falls.  Ore.— "1 
wish  to  acknowledge  your  letter  of  July  1.  expressing 
my  view,  which  is  quite  in  accord  with  that  expressed 
by  you.  namely,  that  the  Southern  Pacific  should  retain 
the  Central  Pacific."— 11.  T).  Mortenson,  President. 

Silverton  Lumber  Co.,  Silverton.  Ore.— "We  feel  as 
you  do,  that   it   would  be  an   irreparable  calamity  and 


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we  sincerely  hope  that  some  means  may  be  found  to 
prevail  on  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commission  to  hold 
these  two  lines  together  as  at  present." — R.  A.  Cowden, 
President. 

Coos  Veneer  &  Box  Co.,  Marshfield,  Ore. — "We  are 
very  much  opposed  to  the  disruption  of  the  Southern 
Pacific  and  Central  Pacific  System  and  will  do  anything 
we  can  to  co-operate  in  averting  such  a  calamity  to  the 
Pacific  Coast  and  our  industry." — Benjamin  Ostlind, 
Vice-President. 

Hammond  Lumber  Co.,  Portland,  Ore. — "It  may  be 
somewhat  early  for  action  but  whenever  the  time  comes 
we  will  do  all  we  can  to  assist  in  prevention  of  a  break- 
up of  the  present  Southern  Pacific  System." — G.  B.  Mc- 
Leod. 

Brighton  Mills  Co.,  Brighton,  Ore. — "We  are  heartily 
in  accord  with  the  action  of  your  committee,  and  we 
have  already  taken  the  matter  up  with  the  Interstate 
Commerce  Commission  and  with  the  Oregon  Public 
Service  Commission." — Thomas  B.  Watt,  Secretary- 
Treasurer. 

The  Booth-Kelly  Lumber  Co.,  Eugene,  Ore.— "Think 
you  can  make  the  same  statement  in  regard  to  this  part 
of  Oregon  and  the  western  part  in  general  that  you 
make  with  regard  to  San  Francisco  and  its  tributary  ter- 
ritory. As  evidencing  this  I  believe  every  chamber  of 
commerce  in  the  western  part  of  the  State,  except  the 
Portland  Chamber  of  Commerce,  has  put  out  a  strong 
resolution  in  favor  of  the  retention  and  operation  of 
the  Central  Pacific  by  the  Southern  Pacific." — A.  C. 
Dixon,  Manager. 

MANUFACTURERS 

Oregon  Pulp  &  Paper  Co.  (Mfrs.  of  High  Grade 
Papers),  Salem  Ore. — -"We  are  absolutely  opposed  to 
any  change  in  the  relation  between  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific and  the  Central  Pacific.  We  do  feel  that  such  a 
change  cannot  bring  any  good  to  the  shippers,  mer- 
chants and  manufacturers  of  the  Willamette  Valley,  as 
it  will  disturb  a  direct  connection  between  these  points 
and  the  South  and  Southwest,  and  instead  of  creating 
competition  it  would  eliminate  competition  and  would 
put  us  entirely  at  the  mercy  of  the  Northern  and  Middle 
Western  lines,  while  90  per  cent  of  our  product  goes 
South  and  Southwest." — C.  F.  Beyerl,  General  Manager. 

The  Portland  Cordage  Co.,  Portland,  Ore.— "This  sub- 
ject was  gone  into  quite  thoroughly  by  a  committee  of 
our  Chamber  of  Commerce  in  1914  and  it  was  then  de- 
cided that,  on  the  grounds  of  both  justice  to  the  rail- 
roafls  involved  and  to  our  local  interests,  it  was  advis- 
able that  we  support  the  Southern  Pacific  Railroad  Co. 
I  cannot  see  that  there  is  any  reason  to  change  our 
opinion." — S.  M.  Mears. 

Hawley  Pulp  &  Paper  Co.,  Paper  Manufacturers,  Ore- 

fon  City,  Ore. — "Our  company  has  always  been  very  ef- 
ciently  served  by  the  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific 
Lines,  co-operating  with  us  in  the  upbuilding  and  ex- 
pansion of  our  marketing  territory  by  means  of  through 
rates,  etc.  At  the  present  time  our  products  are  moving 
to  numerous  destinations  on  the  lines  of  the  joint  sys- 
tem under  unit  operating  conditions  that  would  be  im- 
possible to  obtain  under  a  service  of  conflicting  ideas  of 
management." — W.  P.  Hawley,  President. 

MISCELLANEOUS 

J.  R.  Cartwright,  Harrisburg,  Ore. — "The  people  in 
and  around  Harrisburg  are  extremely  anxious  that  the 
Southern  Pacific  should  continue  its  present  relations 
with  the  Central  Pacific  and  control  the  same  as  a  part 
of  its  system.  I  most  assuredly  believe  that  if  the  order 
of  the  court  is  carried  into  effect  by  the  Interstate  Com- 
merce Commission,  the  Union  Pacific  will  gain  control 
of  the  Central  Pacific  and  operate  it  as  a  part  of  its 
transcontinental  system.     I  believe  that  such  operation 


would  be  inimical  to  the  best  interests  of  the  people  of 
the  State  of  Oregon,  the  Southern  Pacific  now  having 
in  Oregon  its  main  line  from  Portland  to  the  southern 
boundary  of  the  State,  the  Woodburn-Natron  branch, 
the  West  side  lines,  meaning  west  of  the  Willamette 
River,  the  Albany-Coos  Bay  branch,  and  what  is  known 
as  the  Corvallis  and  Eastern  line  from  Deep  Water  on 
the  Yaquina  to  the  Cascade  Mountains.  Our  interests 
are  so  interwoven  with  the  Southern  Pacific  that  it 
would  be  a  great  injury  to  us  and  to  our  people  to  have 
them  disturbed  at  this  time." 

Everett  Mingus,  M.  D.,  Marshfield,  Ore.— "The  Pacific 
Coast  States  require  additional  railroad  construction, 
but  the  dismemberment  of  these  two  roads  is  going 
to  retard  that  construction  very  materially  in  that  the 
revenues  which  may  be  available  for  that  purpose  will 
have  to  be  used  for  the  purchase  of  additional  equip- 
ment, cars,  engines,  terminals,  car  shops,  maintenance 
material,  office  space,  to  meet  the  cost  of  another  man- 
agement, and  many  other  items  of  necessity." 

PUBLIC  UTILITIES 

California-Oregon  Power  Co.,  Medford,  Ore. — "Re- 
garding the  unmerging  of  the  Southern  Pacific-Central 
Pacific  holdings,  will  say  that  the  various  business  in- 
terests of  this  section  of  the  State  of  Oregon  have 
studied  the  matter  carefully  from  all  angles  and  from 
all  standpoints,  and  our  chambers  of  commerce  have 
done  likewise  through  their  committees  and  member- 
ships, all  arriving  at  the  one  conclusion  that  it  would 
be  decidedly  disadvantageous  to  this  entire  section,  as 
well  as  to  the  railroads  themselves  to  have  the  roads  lit- 
erally separated." — H.  L.  Walther,  Division  Manager. 

RETAIL  SHIPPERS 

McMorran  &  Washburne,  Dry  Goods  and  Clothing, 
Eugene,  Ore. — "We  join  in  the  opinion  expressed  by  the 
Eugene  Chamber  of  Commerce  that  the  separation  of 
these  two  railroad  properties  would  be  very  disastrous 
to  the  best  interests  of  the  State  of  Oregon,  and  partic- 
ularly of  the  cities  and  towns  of  this  section.  We  are 
unable  to  see  wherein  any  advantage  from  a  transpor- 
tation standpoint  would  be  gained,  either  as  regards 
competition  or  rates,  and  proposed  separation  holds 
forth  much  potential  possibility  of  retarding  our  com- 
mercial interests  in  this  section." — Carl  G.  Washburne. 

Wetherbee-Walker  Furniture  Co.,  Eugene,  Ore. — 
"While  I  am  sure  there  is  nothing  new  I  can  add  in  the 
way  of  argument,  I  must  say  that  both  from  the 
grounds  of  justice  and  also  considered  from  the  stand- 
point of  the  development  of  this  section  I  am  sure  that 
such  an  action  would  be  a  very  serious  mistake." — Dean 
H.  Walker. 

R.  S.  Van  Cleve,  Toledo,  Ore.— "It  seems  to  me  to  be 
very  unwise  to  separate  the  Southern  and  Central  Pa- 
cific Lines,  which  would  double  the  overhead  and  break 
the  connecting  links,  and  we  will  have  to  pay  for  it." 

Price  Bros.  Department  Store,  Oregon  City,  Ore. — 
"Disruption  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  the  Central  Pa- 
cific System  would  work  a  great  hardship  to  the  ship- 
pers doing  business  adjacent  to  the  territory  that  the 
above  railroad  operates." — A.  A.  Price,  President. 

The  Hub  (Smart  Wear  for  Women),  Marshfield,  Ore. 
— '"The  maintaining  of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central 
Pacific  as  a  unit  has  the  hearty  indorsement  of  myself 
and  our  company,  and  it  is  our  sincere  hope  that  a 
means  will  be  found  to  prevent  the  disruption  of  the 
Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  System." — A.  S.  Kohler. 

WHOLESALERS 

Medford  Grocery  Co.,  Wholesale,  Medford,  Ore. — 
"The  separating  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pacific  Roads 
would  seriously  handicap  Southern  Oregon  and  North- 
ern California  territory  as  well  as  entire  Pacific  Coast. 
Would  like  to  see  the  enforcement  of  the  decree  held 


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up  until  your  commission  concludes  hearings  authorized 
Transportation  Act  of  1920."— E.  A.  Welch,  Vice-Pres- 
ident and  General   Manager. 

Fred  Schwab  Commission  Co.,  Mt  Angel,  Ore.— "We 
have  sent  our  objections  to  the  Public  Service  Commis- 
sion of  Oregon  and  the  Interstate  Commerce  Commis- 
sion, and  have  received  very  favorable  answers  from 
both."— Paul  F.  Schwab.  District  Manager. 

Willamette  Grocery  Co.,  Salem,  Ore.— "In  the  disrup- 
tion of  the  Southern  Pacific  and  the  Central  Pacific 
Systems,  would  in  our  opinion  be  of  no  benefit  to  the 
public  in  general  but  would  be  an  irreparable  loss^to 
the  business  interests  of  the  entire  Pacific  Coast." — 
Theodore  Roth,  Manager. 

Hudson  ft  Gram  Co..  Portland,  Ore.— "The  result  of 
the  unscrambling  of  the  Southern  Pacific  System  would 
be  quite  as  disastrous  to  the  interests  of  Oregon  as  to 
the  interests  of  California.  The  sentiment  in  Oregon 
is  very'  generally  against  the  unmerging.  We  should 
be  glad  to  co-operate  with  you  fully  to  the  end  that 
the  present  Southern  Pacific  System  may  remain  intact." 
— Robert  A.  Hudson,  President. 

NEVADA 

Citizens  of  Hazen,  Nev.— "While  the  name  Hazen, 
N'ev.,  may  mean  practically  nothing  to  you  insofar  as 
your  individual  interest  is  concerned,  nevertheless  we 
are  a  little  town  struggling  for  the  existence  that  i- 
nature  to  us  all,  and  with  this  in  mind  we  are  writing 
your  Honorable  Commission  to  the  end  that  the  threat- 
ened dissolution  of  the  Central-Southern  Pacific  Co. 
may  not  be  accomplished. 

"While  we  are  only  a  junction  point,  yet  we  have 
been  served  by,  and  given  the  attention  by  the  Southern 
Pacific  Co.  the  same  as  though  we  were  a  large  center, 
and  it  is  from  this  effort  of  theirs  to  serve  that  we  have 
taken  heart  in  this  desert  country  to  develop  it  and 
make  it  as  we  feel  it  can  be  made,  viz.,  a  pleasant 
and  profitable  place  to  live  in. 

"We  feel  that  should  this  dissolution  come  about  and 
a  new  management  replacing  the  one  who  has  tried 
so  consistently  and  so  well  to  serve  ns,  that  the  new 
organization  will  not  foster  our  needs  and  desires:  that 
one  railroad  is  better  for  our  needs  than  would  two  be. 

"It  is  therefore  resolved  by  the  residents  of  this  com- 
munity, whom  we  represent,  that  your  Honorable  Com- 
mission do  not  permit  the  dissolution  of  the  Southern- 
Central  Pacific." 

Fernley  Business  Men  and  Ranchers.  Femley,  Nev, — 
"The  Business  Men  and  Ranchers  of  Fernley,  Nev.,  at 
an  assembly  on  this  date  (June  19)  unanimously  re- 
solved that  we  petition  vour  Honorable  Commission 
to  the  end  that  the  Southern  Pacific  and  Central -Pa- 
cific Railroads  be  not  dissolved. 

"We,  of  this  community,  have  shipped  to  Los  An- 
geles, the  only  market  available,  over  600  carloads  of 
nay  during  the  year  1921. 

"This  dissolution  would  make  us  ship  over  two  rail- 
roads. We  have  a  market  to  the  west  for  our  potatoes 
and  everything  that  is  produced  in  this  locality. 

"It  is  of  vital  importance  that  the  relations  of  the  two 
railroads  be  continued  "— W.  G.  Rawles,  Chairman;  W. 
H.  Austin,  Secretary. 

Citizens  of  Golconda.  Nev.— "We,  all  residents  of  Gol- 
conda,  Nev.,  engaged  in  mining,  agriculture  and  mercan- 
tile and  other  businrss  pursuits,  hereby  petition  your 
Honorable  Commission  to  permit  the  Southern  and 
Central  Pacific  Railroads  to  remain  as  they  are  at  thi-i 
time.  i.  e.,  one  company. 

"They  have  served  this,  one  of  the  oldest  towns  in 
Nevada,  satisfactorily  for  over  60  years." 


John  Garaventina  and  Others.  Wadsworth,  Nev. — 
"This  community  has  been  served  since  1860  by  the 
Central-Southern  Pacific  Co.  and  since  the  acquisition 
of  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad  by  the  Southern  Pacific 
Co.  the  service  both  to  and  from  our  locality  has  been 
first  class,  and  we  feel,  as  stated  above,  a  little  appre- 
hensive as  to  the  character  of  service  we  would  receive 
if  this  dissolution  is  accomplished,  and  we  base  this  ap- 
prehension on  the  continued  deterioration  of  service  we 
nave  experienced  previous  to  the  time  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific acquired  the  Central  Pacific  Railroad. 

"We  have  no  desire  to  go  into  lengthy  discussion  of 
our  needs  and  wants,  but  being  on  the  ground  and  being 
best  able  to  judge  conditions,  we  are  writing  you  this 
in  order  that  you  may  be  reliably  informed,  and  that 
you  will  not  permit  a  dissolution  of  these  lines,  but  per- 
mit them  to  operate  as  at  present." 

Union  Sheep  Co..  H.  Moffat  Co.,  H.  Levy  Co.,  Quinto 
Ranch  Co.,  Reno.  Nev. — "We  feel  that  it  is  to  our  best 
interest  to  appeal  to  your  Honorable  Body  to  use  the 
authority  given  you  by  the  Transportation  Act  of  1920 
to  not  permit  the  breaking  up  of  the  Southern  Pacific- 
Central  Pacific  Railways. 

"For  many  years  we  have  shipped  twenty-five  hun- 
dred (2,500)  carloads  of  livestock  annually  over  the  lines 
of  the  Southern  Pacific  Co.  This  livestock  has  moved 
from  points  in  Nevada  and  California  to  San  Francisco, 
Los  Angeles,  Portland  and  considerable  to  Eastern 
points.  In  every  case,  we  have  been  allowed,  without 
hindrance,  to  route  our  own  shipments. 

"We  have  in  the  past  been  heavy  shippers  of  wool 
from  California,  Nevada,  Utah  and  Idaho,  and  in  no  in- 
stance has  the  Southern  Pacific  Co.  in  any  way  at- 
tempted to  influence  us  to  route  our  wools  via  their 
Sunset  Lines." 

Humboldt  County  Chamber  of  Commerce,  Winne- 
mucca,  Nev. — "This  territory  at  the  present  time  benefits 
very  greatly  from  the  shipment  of  a  vast  amount  of 
freight  of  Southern  California  and  Northwestern  origin 
or  destination  over  the  Southern  Pacific-Central  Pa- 
cific Lines,  which  would  undoubtedly  be  diverted  over 
the  Los  Angeles  and  Salt  Lake  Road  on  the  one  hand, 
and  over  the  Oregon  Short  Line  on  the  other,  should 
the  Central  Pacific  pass  out  of  the  control  of  the  South- 
ern Pacific  and  into  the  hands  of  the  Union  Pacific,  and 
the  Central  Pacific  would  then  be  used  only  for  the 
benefit  of  Northern  and  Central  California.  Union  Pa- 
cific officials  have  promised  increased  business  over  this 
line  should  it  pass  to  their  control,  but  it  is  natural  to 
assume,  with  the  field  of  supply  and  demand  limited  as 
above,  traffic  will  be  curtailed,  rather  than  increased, 
over  the  Central  Pacific  and  competing  lines  in  this 
territory. 

"Another  phase  of  the  question  presents  itself  in  the 
effect  upon  the  Western  Pacific,  which  this  transfer  of 
ownership  of  the  Central  Pacific  from  the  Southern  Pa- 
cific to  the  Union  Pacific,  would  have,  which  transfer 
we  are  led  to  believe  will  naturally  follow  should  the 
decree  of  the  Supreme  Court  be  enforced. 

"At  the  present  time  the  Western  Pacific  derives  a 
very  great  portion  of  its  Idaho  and  Wyoming  freight 
through  the  Union  Pacific,  because  the  latter  road  has 
no  coast  connections  of  its  own.  We  feel  that  should 
the  Central  Pacific  be  awarded  to  the  Union  Pacific, 
practically  all  of  this  business  would  go  over  the  Cen- 
tral Pacific  rather  than  over  the  Western,  since  such 
an  arrangement  would  afford  the  Union  Pacific  a  100 
per  cent  haul,  and  they  would  naturally  so  divert  it. 

"We  shall  be  very  glad  to  have  the  general  committee 
express  our  views  on  the  subject  to  the  Federal  author- 
ities, and  if  I  can  aid  in  any  way  by  giving  further  in- 
formation, I  would  be  pleased  to  have  you  call  upon 
me." — Theodore  Grady,  Jr..  Secretary. 


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MEMBERSHIP  OF  GENERAL  COMMITTEE 


Thomas  Addison,  Pacific  Coast  Manager, 
General  Electric  Co., 
Rialto  Bldg., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

George  H.  Anderson, 
San  Jose,  Cal. 

Alfred  Aram,  President, 

Associated  Tobacco  Growers,  Inc.,  of  Cal., 

7  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
M.  Y.  Arendt, 

H.  Arendt  &  Co., 

Pleasanton,  Cal. 

H.  Adam, 

California  Card  Manufacturing  Co., 
Potrero  Ave  and  Mariposa  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Wallace  M.  Alexander,  President, 

San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Frank    P..   Anderson,   President, 
Bank  of  California, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Geo.  W.  Ashley,  Director, 

California  Growers  &  Shippers'  Protective  League, 
Lodi,  Cal. 

Alden  Anderson,  President, 

Capitol  National  Bank, 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
Albert  Asher,  President, 

Garcia  &  Maggini  Co.. 

232  Drumm  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Leslie  F.  Baker, 

Baker  &  Co.,  Inc. 

Modesto,  Cal. 
Chas.  B.  Bills,  Vice-President, 

Sacramento  San  Joaquin  Bank, 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
Charles  E.  Bloom,  Secretary, 

Granite  Rock  Co., 

Watsonville,  Cal. 
Edward  J.  Bowen,  Secretary, 

Pacific  Wire  Rope  Co., 

1840  East  Fifteenth  St.. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
M.  J.  Brandenstein.  President, 

M.  J.  Brandenstein  &  Co., 

655  Third  St., 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 

C.  M.  Brown. 

Redlands,  Cal. 
G.  C.  Burnett.  President  and  Manager, 

The  Burnett  Lumber  Co., 

Tulare,  Cal. 
R.  H.  Bennett,  Secretary. 

Xorthern  California  Wholesale  Grocers'  Association. 

216  Market  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
W.  J.  Benson, 

W   J.  Benson  Co., 

1420  Van  Ness  Ave., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
R.  M.  Billings,  Manager. 

Acme-White  Lead  &  Color  Works, 

458  Second  St.. 

San   Francisco,  Cal. 


E.  B.  Braden,  General  Manager, 
American  Smelters  Securities  Co.. 
444  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
G.  J.  Bradley,  Manager, 

Merchants   &   Manufacturers   Traffic   Association 
of  Sacramento, 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
R.  C.  Bray,  Traffic  Manager, 

Trojan  Powder  Co., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

John  Barneson,  President, 

General  Petroleum  Corporation, 
Alaska  Com.  Bldg., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

F.  E.  Bates,  Traffic  Manager. 
Sherman  Clay  and  Company, 
Kearny  and  Sutter  Sts., 

San  Francisco,  California. 
Thomas  S    Baxter,  President, 

Holt  Manufacturing  Co., 

Stockton,  Cal. 
R.  T.  Bentley,  President, 

California  Packing  Corporation, 

101  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Louis  Bloch,  Vice-President, 

Crown-Willamette   Paper  Co., 

248  Battery  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
F.  E.  Booth,  President, 

F.  E.  Booth  Co., 

110  Market  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

George  Cameron,  President, 

Santa  Cruz-Portland  Cement  Co. 

Crocker  Bldg.,  San  Francisco. 
H.  C.  Capwell,  President, 

H.  C.  Capwell  Co., 

Oakland,  Cal. 
Joseph  Carlston.  President, 

Central  National   Bank, 

Oakland,  Cal. 
W.  S.  Clayton,  President, 

First  National  Bank, 

San  Jose,  Cal. 
Thomas  Connolly,  President, 

Stockton  Savings  Bank, 

Stockton,  Cal. 
Elmer  Cox,  President 

Weed  Lumber  Co., 

Sugar  Pine  Lumber  Co., 

First  National  Bank  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
E.  S.   Carpenter. 

Western  Lumber  Co., 

214  12th  St.. 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
J.  P.  Conduit,  Treasurer, 

California  Cotton  Oil  Co., 

52nd  St.  and  Santa  Fe  Ave., 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
S.  Crandall,  President, 

California  Hardware  Co., 

500  E.  1st  St., 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
D.  E.  Cross,  Manager, 

Turlock  Melon  Growers  Association,  Inc., 

Turlock,  Cal. 


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Geo.  \V.  Caswell. 

Geo.  W.  Caswell  Co.. 

438  2nd  St.. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Milton  H.  Cook, 

H.  X.  Cook  Belting  Co  , 

401  Howard  St. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

J.  F.  Creegan.  Secretary. 
California  Potterv  Co., 
Mills   Bldg, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

James  P.  Curry.  Traffc  Manager. 

California   Walnut   Grower*    Association, 
1745  East  Seventh  St.. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

C    VY    Doane,  Manager. 
Geo.  H.  Crolley  Co..  Inc.. 
8th  and  Townsend 
San  Francisco.  Cal 

Jay  Deming.  Treasurer. 

G.  VV.  Hume  Co.. 

311  California  St. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Walter  Dorwaldt. 

Traffic  Department. 

California  Central  Creamer 

417  Market  St.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
H.  T.  Davis,  President. 

Ripon   Merchant*   Association, 

Ripon,  Cal. 
Dennis  Desmond. 

The  Redding  Feed  Co.. 

Redding,  Cal 
Marshall  Diggs,  President. 

Thomson  Diggs.  Inc.. 

Sacramento.  Cal. 
C.  A.  Dilley. 

Kern  Co.  Motor  Co.. 

Bakersfield.  Cal. 
H.  S.  Downs, 

Tehachapi.  Cal. 
C.  F.  Oilman.  President. 

National  Bank  of  D  O.  Mills  &  Co.. 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
Captain  Rohert  Dollar,  President. 

Robert  Dollar  Steamship  Co., 

311  California  St.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
P.  C.  Drescher.  President. 

Mebius  &  Drescher, 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
Frank  Drum.  Vice-President. 

Pacific  Portland  Cement  Co.. 

Pacific  Building. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

T.  II.   Earl.  Vice-President. 

Wholesale  Boot  &  Shoe  Association, 

Monadnock  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
J.  P.  Edwards,  Assistant  Secretary. 

Associated  Oil  Co.. 

79  N.  Montgomery  St.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
J.  R.  Ellison.  General  Manager. 

Ellison-White  Lyceum  &  Chautauqua  Assn., 

Portland,  Oregon. 
Srott  Ennis,  Secretary, 

Knnis  Brown  Co.. 

Sacramento.  Cal. 


Milton  H.  Esberg,  Vice-President. 

General  Cigar  Co..  Inc.. 

601  3rd  St.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Alfred  C.  Elkinton.  President, 

Philadelphia  Quartz  Co., 

Berkeley,  Cal. 

i 

L.  Fabian. 

Fabian-Grunauer  Co.. 

Tracy.  Cal. 
R.  C.  Force.  Vice-President, 

C.  L.  Best  Tractor  Co.. 

San  Leandro,  Cal. 
A.  P.  Foute.  Vice-President. 

Kern  Grocery  Co., 

Bakersfield.  Cal. 
Herbert  Fleishhacker.  President 

Anglo-London  Paris  National  Bank. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Edward  J.  Fowler,  President, 

Pacific  Foundry  Co., 

18th  and  Harrison  Sts., 

San   Francisco,  Cal. 
I.    Friedman.  Traffic  Manager, 

I.  H.  Newbauer  &  Company. 

Wholesale  Terminal. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
1     \    Fulton.  Manager. 

Idaho-Marvland   Mines   Co.. 

Grass  Valley.  Cal. 

W    I.    Garver.  Traffic  Manager. 

California-Hawaiian  Sugar  Rchning  Corp.. 
230  California  St.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

W    E.  Gcrber,  President. 
California  National  Bank. 
Sacramento,  Cal. 

Wvlie  M.  Giffcn.  President. 
Sunniaid  Raisin  Association. 
Fresno.  Cal. 

M    A    Go.)  ■  int  Treasurer, 

General  Cigar  Co., 
601   Third   St.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

R.  L.  Gilmore,  Secretary-Treasurer. 
Jo  Rand  Reduction  &  Smelting  Co., 
Bakersfield.  Cal. 

F.  P.  Gregson, 

ociated  Jobbers  of  Los  Aagl 
Equitable  Bank  Bldg.. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

E.  B.  Gross,  President, 
Field  &  Gross.  Inc.. 
Monterey,  Cal. 
(c/o  Funsten  Co.,  Newhall  Bldg..  San  Francisco.) 

\\    S.  Hall.  President, 
California  Warehousemen's  Association. 
Durham.  Cal. 

J.  Graham  Hambley. 

Graham  Hambly  &  Son, 
1333  F.  7th  St.. 
!. us  Angeles,  Cal. 

Chas.  S.  Hardy,  President, 
Chas.  S.  Hardy. 
San  Diego,  Cal. 

C.  N.  Hawkins,  President. 

Moulton  Irrigated  Lands  fc, 
Hollister,  Cal 


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P.  C.  Hale, 

Hale  Bros.,  Inc., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
R.  B.  Hale,  Treasurer, 

Hale  Bros.,  Inc., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Alexander  Hamilton,  President, 

Baker-Hamilton-Pacific  Co., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Archbishop  Edward  J.  Hanna, 

1100  Franklin  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
L.  W.  Harris,  Vice-President, 

Ames  Harris  Neville  Co., 

100  Potrero  Ave., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
J.  O.  Hayes,  Publisher, 

"San  Jose  Mercury," 

San  Jose,  Cal. 

George  N.  Herbert,  President, 
Herbert  Packing  Co., 
San  Jose,  Cal. 

Alfred  Holman.  Editor, 
The  Argonaut, 
207  Powell  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

John  A.  Hooper. 
110  Market  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

William  F.  Humphrey, 
Mills  Bldg.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

A.  Haase.  Vice-President, 
Jewell  Steel  &  Malleable  Co., 
1375  Potrero  Ave., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

M.  H.  Hannam,  Secretary, 
Spreckels  Sugar  Co., 
2  Pine  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Edwin  Higgins,  President, 

California  Metal  &  Mineral  Pro., 
1213  Hobart  Bldg.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

H.  R.  Higgins.  Chairman, 
Joint  Traffic  Committee, 
1  Drumm  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

M.  R.  Higgins,  President, 

National  Paper  Products  Co., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

F.  M.  Hill,  Manager, 

Fresno  Traffic  Association, 
Fresno,  Cal. 

Reuben  W.  Hills,  President, 
Hills  Bros., 
175  Fremont  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

A.  Hirschfeld,  Secretary, 
Levi-Strauss  &  Co., 
Battery  and  Pine  Sts., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

E.  A.  Howard,  President, 
E.  A.  Howard  &  Co.. 
Spear  and  Howard  Sts., 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 

W.  C.  Hubner,  Traffic  Manager, 
Berger  &  Carter  Co., 
365  Market  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


W.  L.  Hyman,  Secretary, 
Frank  &  Hyman,  Inc., 
19th  and  Bryant  Sts., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

J.  James, 

W.  Frank  Miller  &  Co., 

Butte  City,  Cal. 
Dave  Jessurun,  Superintendent, 

Anaheim  Sugar  Co., 

Anaheim,  Cal. 
C.  A.  Johnson,   Manager, 

Holly  Sugar  Corp., 

Huntington  Beach,  Cal. 
Anton  Johnson, 

Anton  Johnson  Co., 

Kingsburg,  Cal. 

B.  C.  Jones, 

Hayden  Furniture  Co., 
Bakersfield,  Cal. 
Fred  W.  Jacobs,  President, 
California  Canneries  Co., 
600  Minnesota  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

C.  R.  Johnson,  President, 
Union  Lumber  Co., 
Crocker  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
William  E.  Johnson,  Vice-President, 
Merchants  National  Bank, 
631  Market  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Samuel  Kahn,  Vice-President  and  General  Manager, 
Western  States  Gas  &  Electric  Co., 
Stockton,  Cal. 

James  A.  Keller,  Traffic  Manager, 

Pacific  Portland  Cement  Co.,  Consolidated, 

Pacific  Building, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
F.  E.  Knowles,  President, 

Raymond  Granite  Co.,  Inc., 

3  Potrero  Ave., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
K.  R.  Kingsbury,  President, 

Standard  Oil  Co.  of  California, 

Standard  Oil  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
J.  H.  King,  President, 

Oakland  Chamber  of  Commerce, 

Oakland,  Cal. 
F.  J.  Koster,  President, 

California  Barrel  Co., 

2nd  and  Illinois  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Everitt  King,  Secretary, 
The  King  Lumber  Co., 
Bakersfield,  Cal. 

D.  B.  Lane, 
Westfall  Lane  Co., 
Turlock,  Cal. 

R.  P.  Lathrop,  President, 
The  Lathrop  Hay  Co., 
Hollister,  Cal. 

George  de  Latour,  President. 
Beaulieu  Vineyard, 
145  California  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Arthur  Lindauer,  District  Attorney, 
Solano  County, 
Fairfield,  Cal. 


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S.  B.  Leas. 

Real  Estate  and  Gen.  Ins.  Apt  . 

Fresno,  Cal. 
I.  B.  Levison.  President. 

Fireman's  Fund  Ins.  Co., 

401  California  St.. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

!■"    I..  Lipman,  President 

Wells  Fargo  Nevada  National  Bank, 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Victor  Labadie,  Traffic  Manager, 

Willits  &  Patterson, 

1  Drumm  St., 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
I    F.  Littlefield,  President. 

W.  P.  Fuller  Company. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
K.   H.   Loveland. 

F.  H.  Loveland  Produce  Co., 

Bakersficld.  Cal. 

Seth  Mann.  Attorney  and  Traffic  Director, 

San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Commerce, 

Merchants  Exchange  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
B    F.  McKibben.  Traffic  Manager, 

Pacific  Egg  Producers. 

( Poultry  Producers  of  Central  Cal..) 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
C.  J.  Mais.  Business  Manager. 

Judson  Slfg.  Co., 

819  Folsom  St, 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 

MacDonald,  President, 
-tern  Milling  Co., 

149  California  St.. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Samuel  O.  Meyer, 

Getz  Bros.  &  Co., 

280  Battery  St, 

San  Francisco,  Cal 
Donald  MacDonald,  Treasurer. 

The  Pacific  Lumber  Co , 

311  California  St. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
J     \    Moore.  President. 

Moore  Ship  Building  Co.. 

Balfour  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Walton  N.  Moore, 

Walton  N.  Moore  Dry  Goods  Co., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
A.  R.  Moylan.  Traffic  Manager. 

The  Paraffine  Companies.  Inc., 

40  First  St.. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
I)   S.  Murray.  Traffic  Manager, 

Alameda  Sugar  Co., 

351  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Atholl  McBean.  Secretary, 

Gladding  McBean  &  Co.. 

Crocker  Bldg., 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
Frank  B.  McKevitt. 

Producers  Fruit  Co., 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
Gavin  McNab.  Attorney, 

Merchants  National  Bank  Bldg, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
G    W,  IfcNcar, 

G.  W    McNear.  Inc., 

433  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 


S.  B.  McN'car,  Vice-President. 

Sperry  Flour  Co., 

332  Pine  St.. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
J.  R.  Millar,  Vice-President, 

California  Cotton  Mills, 

Oakland,  Cal. 
A.  B.  Miller,  President, 

Fontana  Farms  Co., 

Fontana.  Cal. 
C.  C.  Moore, 

Charles  C.  Moore  &  Co., 

Sheldon  Bldg., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Harry  McComb,  President 

Farr  &  McComb, 

1025  Central  Bldg., 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
W.  H.  McCormack. 

A.  Block  Fruit  Co., 

Santa  Clara.  Cal. 
C.  D.  Magee,  Jr.. 

Kern  Cotton  Gin  Co., 

Box  922, 

Bakersficld,  Cal. 
E.  C.  Mcrritt.  Manager, 

Sebastopol  Apple  Growers  Association. 

Sebastopol,  Cal. 

R.  C.  Merryman,  Secretary, 

Mcrrvman   Fruit  Land  and  Lumber  Co., 

742  Consolidated  Realty  Bldg., 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
John  S.  Montgomery,  President. 

Lodi  Growers  &  Snippers  League. 

Lodi,  Cal. 

John  McGlinchey,  President, 

Stockmen's    Protective   Association   of   Alameda    and 

San  Joaquin  Counties, 
Livermore,  Cal. 

Frederick  Morgan,  Traffic  Manager, 
Zellerbach  Paper  Co.. 
Battery  and  Jackson  Sts., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

A.  H.  Naftzer, 

Industrial  Accident  Commission, 
911  Pacific  Finance  Bldg., 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

S.  R.  Newbauer,  Secretary, 
J.  H.  Newbauer  Co., 
544  Davis  St.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

J.  L.  Nagle,  General  Manager, 
California  Fruit  Exchange, 
Sacramento,  Cal. 

H.  C.  Nichols, 
Tubbs-Cordage  Co., 
Kohl  Bldg  . 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 

J.  Leroy  Nickel,  President, 
Miller  &  Lux,  Inc., 
Merchants  Exchange  Bldg., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

M.  F.  Nelligan. 
G.  Nelligan  &  Son, 
Santa  Rosa,  Cal. 

Marco  R.  Newmark, 
M.  A.  Niwmark  &  Co., 
1248  Wholesale  St. 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 


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J.  J.  O'Brien,  Representative, 

Farmers'  Association  of  San  Jose, 

San  Jose,  Cal. 
G.  B.  Oliver,  Manager, 

Lumber  Department, 

Hobart  Estate  Co., 

Hobart  Mills,  Nevada  Co.,  Cal. 
Emery  Oliver,  General  Manager, 

Natomas  Co.  of  Cal. 

Forum  Bldg., 

Sacramento,  Cal. 

J.  S.  Pelle,  Traffic  Manager, 

Pacific  Gas  &  Electric  Co., 

445  Sutter  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Geo.  W.  Peltier,  1st  Vice-President, 

Calif.  National  Bank  &  Calif.  Trust  &  Savings  Banks, 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
Geo.  W.  Pierce,  President, 

Calif.  Almond  Growers  Exchange, 

311   California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Herman  Paine,   President  and  Manager, 

Los  Angeles  Basket  Co., 

Wholesale   Terminal, 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
].  G.  Pomeroy,  Factory  Representative, 

336  Azusa  St.. 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
G.  A.  Proctor, 

Hop  Dealer, 

Santa  Rosa,  Cal. 

Charles  S.  Ralph, 

1816  Second  St., 

Sacramento,  Cal. 
T.  H.   Ramsey,  President, 

California  Cattlemen's  Association, 

First  National  Bank, 

Red  Bluff,  Cal. 
Hal  M.  Remington, 

(Formerly  Asst.  Traffic   Manager,  Traffic   Bureau, 
San  Francisco  Chamber  of  Commerce,) 

Manager  and  Traffic  Director, 

California  Growers  &  Shippers   Protective   League, 

San  Francisco,  California. 
M.  L.  Requa, 

Mining  Engineer, 

315  Montgomery  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Edmund  N.  Richmond, 

Richmond  Chase  Co., 

San  Jose,  Cal. 
George  M.  Rolph.  General  Manager, 

Calif.  &  Hawaiian  Sugar  Refining  Corp., 

230  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
James  Rolph,  Jr., 

Mayor,  City  of  San  Francisco, 

City  Hall, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Abraham  Rosenburg   President, 

Rosenburg  Bros.  &  Co., 

334  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
VVm.  P.  Roth,  Vice-President, 

Matson  Navigation  Co., 

120   Market  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
H.  W.  Robinson,  Manager. 

Fleischmann  Co., 

941   Mission  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 


Lou  H.  Rose,  President, 

Campe-Rose  Co., 

1230  Van  Ness  Ave., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Samuel  E.   Rees, 

Coalinga,  Cal. 
T.  F.  Robbins,  President, 

Robbins-Hebberd  Co., 

Colton,  Cal. 

A.  F.  Roberts,  Manager, 
Hobbs-Parsons  Co., 
Stockton,  Cal. 

Noah  G.  Rogers,  President, 

The  Los  Gatos  Cured  Fruit  Co., 
Los  Gatos,  Cal. 

B.  W.  Root,  Manager, 
California  Moline  Plow  Co., 
Stockton,  Cal. 

W.  B.  Roland,  Manager. 

Rakersfield  Iron  Works, 

Bakersfield,  Cal. 
L.  D.  Sale,  President, 

Western  Wholesale  Drug  Co., 

2nd  and  Los  Angeles  Sts., 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
L.  Scheeline,  Treasurer, 

Hochheimer  &  Co., 

Bakersfield,  Cal. 

Geo.  W.  Sill, 

Geo.  W.  Sill  &  Co., 
Watsonville,  Cal. 

B.  F.  Schlesinger,  General  Manager, 

The  Emporium, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Wm.  T.  Sesnon, 

Sesnon  Oil  Co., 

Holbrook  Bldg.. 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Sig.  Stern,  Vice-President, 
Levi-Strauss  &  Co., 
98  Battery  St., 
San   Francisco,  Cal. 

Maurice  Sullivan,  General  Manager, 
American  Can  Co., 
Mills  Bldg., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

W.  A.  Sutherland,  President, 
Fidelity  Trust  &  Savings  Bank, 
Fresno,  Cal. 

Geo.  Swanston, 
Swanston  &  Son, 
Sacramento,  Cal. 

R.  B.  Swayne, 

R.  B.  Swayne,  Inc., 
Royal  Ins.  Bldg., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

R.  H.  Swayne, 

Swayne  &  Hoyt,  Inc., 
430  Sansome  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

W.  R.  Spalding,  President, 
W.  R.  Spalding  Lumber  Co., 
Visalia,  Cal. 

John  Stauffer,  Jr.. 

Mgr.  Stauffer  Chemical  Co., 

Marsh  Strong  Bldg., 
Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

J.  H.  Strait,  President, 
J.  H.  Strait  &  Co., 
Redlands,  Cal. 


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John  J.  Seid,  Traffic  Manager, 
Crown-Willamette   Paper  Co., 

Battery  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
H.  L.  Sherrick,  Traffic  Manager. 
California  Co-Operative  Canneries, 
Cunard  Bldg., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Skinner,  Manager, 
The  Winton  Co.. 

I  Van  Ness  Ave.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Smith,  President. 

Coos  Bav  Lumber  Co., 

1U00  Balfour  Bldg.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
.1    F.  Smith,  Manager, 

Bryant  &  Trott  Co- 
Santa  Maria.  Cal. 
II.  Spiegelman.  President, 

Continental  Furniture  Mfg.  Co., 

1636  Bryant  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
H.  O.  Stevens,  President  and  General  Manager, 

The  American  Rolling  Mill  Co.  of  Calif., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Win.  T.  Summers.  President. 

Merchants  National  Bank, 

631  Market  S 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

W.  H.  Swayne, 

.ivne  Lumber  Co., 

I  troville,  Cal. 
F.   J.  Taaffee,  Secretary, 

William  Taaffee  &  Co., 
ins  and  Railroad  Ave., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Henry  G.  Turner,  President, 

The  Grange  Co., 

Modesto,  Cal. 
Victor  H.  Tuttle.  Vice-President, 

K    L.  Craig  &  Co.. 

Santa  Fe  and  Third, 

Los  Angeles,  Cal. 
J.    V  Talbot.  Vice-President. 
>tern  Pipe  &  Steel  Co., 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
W    H.  Talbot.  President. 

Pope  &  Talbot. 

S59  Third  St.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 
T.  C.  Tucker,  Manager, 

Calif.  Almond  Growers  Fxchange, 

.Ml  California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
I.  Tynan.  General  Manager, 

Bethlehem  Ship  Building  Corp., 
California  St., 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 
James  Tvson,  President. 

The  Charles  Nelson  Co., 

230  California  St.. 

San  Francisco.  Cal. 

II.  K   Van  Horn,  Traffic  Manager, 
California  Packing  Corp., 
101  California  St, 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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Charles  E.  Virden.  Chairman, 
Executive  Committee, 
California  Fruit  Di-t  . 
Sacramento,  Cal. 


VV.  D.  Wall,  Manager, 
Traffic  Bureau  of  San  Jose  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
San  Jose,  Cal. 

W.  W.  Watterson.  President. 
Natural  Soda  Producing  Co.. 
Keeler.  Cal. 

Herbert  Walker, 

Fillmore   Packing  Co., 
Fillmore,  Cal. 

A.  Weill. 

Weill's  Department  Store, 
Bakersfield.  Cal. 

A.  L.  Warmington.  Vice-President, 
Durant  Motor  Co., 
Oakland,  Cal. 

Chester  N.  Weaver,  President, 
Chester  N.  Weaver  Co., 
162S  Van  Ness  Ave.. 
San  Francisco.  Cal. 

I'.  V  Wilder,  Sales  Manager, 
Pratt-Lowe  Preserving  Co., 
Santa  Clara,  Cal. 

A.  T.  White.  Traffic  Manager, 
The  Emporium, 
San  Francisco,  Cal 

A.  C.  Whittemore,  Agent. 
Southern  Pacific  Milling  Co, 
I.ompoc,  Cal. 

G     \    Willard, 

Willard  Hardware  Co.. 

\.  Hunter  St.. 
Stockton,  Cal. 

Curtis  Wright,  Manager. 
Pacific  Spring  Bed  Co., 
Berkeley,  Cal. 

G.  W.  Whitaker. 
The  John  Bollman  Co., 
615  Fourth  St.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

C.  W.  Wood.  Vice-President. 
Caspar  Lumber  Co.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Carl   Wulff. 

Sunical  Packing  Corp.. 
24  California  St.. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Eli  H.  Wiel,  President  and  General  Manager, 

Buckingham  &  Hecht, 
_2S  First  St.. 
"San   Francisco,  Cal. 

A.  W.  Wishon.  General  Manager, 
San  Joaquin  Light  &  Power  Co., 
Fresno,  Cal. 

Isadore  Zellerbach.  President, 
Zellerbach  Paper  Co., 
534  Battery  St., 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 


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